<div dir="ltr"><div>I don't know what publisher it is with, but most of the bigger ones have techs that can help with this. It takes some transferring. </div><div><br></div><div>I would sit down with the student first and have them login and demonstrate the issue. If you cannot troubleshoot. Then you can reach out to the publisher. </div><div><br></div><div>One thing to note, that if your school is using any of these resources, you should have a VPAT on file for them - verifying they are accessible to current standards. </div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Elizabeth Killinger</b><br><i>Associate Coordinator</i><br><i>FIT-ABLE | Office of Disability Services<br>Fashion Institute of Technology</i><br>David Dubinsky Student Center, A570<div>Phone: 212.217.4090<br>Website: <a href="http://fitnyc.edu/fitable" target="_blank">fitnyc.edu/fitable</a></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 10:59 AM Deborah Armstrong via athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-5286578800532222495">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">What is the latest on the accessibility of online labs from the big publishers, Pearson, Cengage, Mcgraw-Hill, etc.?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">We have more and more instructors requiring them and at our community colleges we get vision-impaired students new to college and new to vision loss and new to using a screen reader.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">So when a student tells me that their lab is not accessible, I’m really not sure what to do. Is it the student’s lack of screen reader skill, or is the lab truly not accessible? As a screen reader user myself
I hear these complaints often, but I’m a worker bee, not even faculty, so there’s not a lot I actually can do about the situation. We have a computer access lab where I send students to get one-on-one assistance, but I often don’t know if the lab is really
going to work out for them.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I can get an access code from the instructor and play with the lab a little, but it takes time away from what I’m supposed to be doing. Because I’m a screen reader user myself, students and instructors think
I have magic solutions. And once in a while I actually do. But not always.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">When I’ve taken courses using some of these labs, I haven’t run in to a lot of access issues, and the few I had were easy to work around. But that doesn’t mean my students’ complaints are not real.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I am curious how often this is occurring, and what you on this list typically do to resolve the issue.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">--Debee<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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