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1 Go to Blackboard/WebCT Accessibility Interest Group Main Page
2 Introduction
3 Subject Areas
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Go to Blackboard/WebCT Accessibility Interest Group Main Page

Introduction

This is the working area for the BB-DOC Subgroup. The Documentation sub-group will work with the Technical Communication team at Blackboard to improve the contents and layout of accessibility related materials. Providing Inline instruction incorporated in the application is another factor in improving the usability/accessibility of the product. The documentation sub-group will also work with the Technical support Team and educate them about the basics of Assistive Technology hardware/software and the potential accessibility problems related to each disability group. The goal is to incorporate information about accessibility in the support documentations, a typical technical support understand the basics about the accessibility and can route the accessibility related problem to the right people in Blackboard if he/she can not resolve it by himself/herself. Versions that we are focusing are Blackboard 6.3 or newer Academic version, Vista CE 6 or newer, and Vista 4 or newer.

Subject Areas

Information on pre-existing Blackboard materials Posted by Andy Jacobson

The main subject areas for the Wiki to start with are:

Support group: Kevin Price-Content Leader- Create documentations explaining how AT software/hardware work and how people with disabilities access electronic/web-based information.

Development group: David Schwarte and Dean Brusnighan, Purdue University,-Content Leaders- Create documentation explaining the universal design and helpful features that enable AT software/hardware to access web applications properly (customized Best Practices for Blackboard Web App).

AT users: Jane Fridrich-Content Leader- Creating help files explaining how to use Vista 4 and/or Blackboard Academic Suite with AT software/hardware (AT users Guidelines).

Content creator: Lisa Fiedor-Content Leader- Create documentation how instructional designers can content creator can produce more generally accessible contents (Instructional Designer Guideline).

BB-Doc Bookmarks: List of bookmarks regarding Blackboard and accessibility.

BB-Accessibility Course Comments and Action Items: Beth Stinson and Andy Jacobson compile comments and corrections for the Accessibility course and report on content updates

Talk:BB-DOC_Subgroup_page: AT Software and Hardware