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

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Hello Debee,
 
The accessibility person from Elsevier  regularly  comes to our EPUB in
Higher Ed working group. He has been at CSUN for many years and does
presentations there. I can put you in touch with him directly if you like.
Let me know.
 
Best
George
 
 
From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman22.u.washington.edu> On Behalf
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Sent: Friday, October 3, 2025 7:40 PM
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Subject: [Athen] Elsevier's and FlatWorld's integraded labs accessibility?
 
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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