[Athen] Elsevier’s and FlatWorld's integraded labs accessibility?

[Deborah Armstrong via athen-list]

This has been one of those weeks with so many third-party semi-accessible products that instructors are integrating in to our courses. Then when I got home Friday night, thinking I’d been asked about everything, I got a call from a girlfriend who uses a screen reader and teaches at Jersey college. She’s teaching psych and sociology to nursing students and is required to use integrated labs from these two publishers.
She says they contain eBooks with integrated videos, quizzes and other study materials like flash cards. And she cannot access them at all. She wants to show some of the videos in her class and point out specific sections in the eBooks but she cannot she says due to complete inaccessibility of both publishers’ products. And of course she’s concerned she could loos her job if she cannot teach effectively.
I’m going to remote in with her Sunday to see if it is her lack of screen reader skill or the inaccessibility of the products, but I must say, I’ve never had a single week where I’ve run across so much drama over inaccessible third-party online academic products.
Is everyone just buying prepackaged curriculum now or what’s with the explosion of all this stuff? I feel like I can only barely help folks with these challenges. Makes me want to retire and just forget it all.
All thoughts are welcome.
--Debee

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