There’s a new addition to the Texthelp tools freely available to UA students, faculty, staff, and departments! With Screenshot Reader, the latest premium feature of EquatIO for Google, you can now turn any equation on the web into readable, editable math.
To learn more, check out How to Make Math Accessible on the Web on the Texthelp blog or watch the demo video to see Screenshot Reader in action.
Emerging Technology and Accessibility invites you to enhance your technology accessibility skills by participating in these workshops during the Summer 2018 term:
All classroom workshops are held in A232 Gordon Palmer. Registration is requested but not required.
We are also happy to offer private training sessions on these and other accessibility-related topics to members of the University community. Please contact us if we can help with your technology accessibility needs.
Questions? Comments? Need access help? Contact accessibility@ua.edu.
The Emerging Technology and Accessibility team is making plans for Summer 2018 training offerings and would like to know: what would you like to learn next? Please let us know by completing this brief, anonymous Technology Accessibility Training Interest Survey or sending us an email at accessibility@ua.edu.
The Emerging Technology and Accessibility team regularly hosts workshops and webinars on web accessibility guidelines; best practices for creating accessible documents, presentations, and spreadsheets; Universal Design for Learning; and other accessibility-related topics. University community members can also request individual or group accessibility training for University employees and campus areas. Please email accessibility@ua.edu
Emerging Technology and Accessibility invites you to enhance your technology accessibility skills by participating in these workshops during the latter half of the Spring 2018 term:
Registration is requested but not required.
We are also happy to offer private training sessions on these and other accessibility-related topics to members of the University community. Please contact us if we can help with your technology accessibility needs.
Last month, we introduced the Texthelp tools now freely available to UA students, faculty, staff, and departments, including EquatIO, which helps users create equations, formulas, and other math and chemistry expressions on a computer or Chromebook. Here’s a look at EquatIO Mobile, released last week, just in time for Pi Day!
Video: How to Use EquatIO® Mobile
A mobile companion to EquatIO for Google Chrome and EquatIO mathspace on the computer or Chromebook, EquatIO Mobile lets you add handwritten math, images, and more to digital documents. Currently available for use on Android devices using Google Chrome or iOS devices using Safari, EquatIO Mobile automatically finds and lets you add digital math to the active documents you have open with EquatIO on your computer or Chromebook.
There are three ways to add math:
After writing, speaking, or taking a picture of your math, you can add it to a document open on your computer or Chromebook. There are two upload options:
To learn more about EquatIO Mobile, check out this Texthelp blog post: EquatIO Mobile: Digital Math in the Palm of your Hand.
Note: The first time you use EquatIO Mobile, you will be prompted to sign in using Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Students should select Google and sign in using a Crimson Mail account. Faculty/staff may select Microsoft and sign in using a @ua.edu Office 365 account, or, to request authorization for an email address connected to a Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn account, please contact accessibility@ua.edu.
The FRC Faculty Technology Showcase is a great place to learn how faculty are using technology to enhance learning, conduct research, and increase professional productivity. Today’s Showcase also marked the launch of the Texthelp tools now freely available to UA students, faculty, staff, and departments.
Texthelp offers a collection of Mac and PC desktop software, Google Chrome apps and extensions, and iOS and Android apps that support reading, writing, language learning, and STEM subjects. The tools are available for use on both personal and University-owned devices and can be accessed via the software catalog on the OIT website.
Read&Write supports reading, writing, researching, and studying. It offers a simple toolbar at the top of the screen that you can customize to meet your specific needs. It offers support with tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments, and proofing written work. It’s particularly beneficial for English language learners and users with learning disabilities, but it’s useful for all learners.
Video: Introduction to using Read&Write at University
The Read&Write toolbar is available as a Google Chrome extension and as desktop software for Windows and Mac. There are also iPad and Android tablet apps that offer many of the features of the Chrome and desktop tools.
Snapverter is an easy to use add-on for Read&Write for Google Chrome that transforms papers and files into readable PDF documents.
Video: Introduction to Snapverter – An Add-On for Read&Write
After installing the Snapverter Chrome app, you can use your smartphone to snap a picture of text in a book, handout, or other paper-based item or select a saved inaccessible digital file from your phone or computer and upload it to the Snapverter folder in your Google Drive. Files are converted to readable text using optical character recognition (OCR) and stored as PDFs in your Google Drive. If you’d like, you can then use Read&Write to hear text read aloud, see words explained, access translation features, and more.
EquatIO supports math and STEM subjects. It lets you type, handwrite, or speak to create equations, formulas, and other math and chemistry expressions on a computer or Chromebook; there’s also a library of ready-made expressions you can use to add STEM content to a document. EquatIO also supports LaTex, a typesetting and mark-up language that’s widely used for mathematical and scientific documents.
Video: Introducing EquatIO® – Make Math Digital. Make Math Together
EquatIO is available as a Google Chrome extension and as desktop software for Windows and Mac. EquatIO users can also use the EquatIO mathspace collaborative workspace and, coming soon, the EquatIO mathspace mobile app.
Ready to give Texthelp a try? Contact Emerging Technology and Accessibility to request access or to talk about how these and other technologies can support inclusive and accessible learning opportunities.
The Docsoft speech-to-text appliance will no longer be available after January 5. To learn more about captioning and transcription grants, contact accessiblity@ua.edu.
Level Access (formerly SSB Bart Group) will be on campus for onsite AMP training on Tuesday, August 8th and Wednesday, August 9th from 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. AMP recently updated the tool’s interface and relaunched its browser extension as ACCESS Assistant. This training will provide hands-on sessions with the AMP trainers as well as allow the opportunity for questions regarding your use and workflows with AMP. Space for this training will be limited to 30 participants and you must register to attend. We ask that you send only one or two representatives from your area. The training sessions will be recorded for access at a later date. Lunch will be provided courtesy of Strategic Communications. Please email accessibility.ua.edu if you have any questions.
Emerging Technology and Accessibility is teaming up with WebTide to host the WPCampus Conference Livestream this Friday, July 14.
The sessions will run all day, so join us as you can in Gordon Palmer Hall to take advantage of topics ranging from accessibility to analytics.
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
GP A232 Every project is a story: Applying Storytelling to your client interactions
GP A204 The Canisius College Workflow: MU WordPress, Divi and MailChimp
GP A236 Don’t Push Rocks Uphill: Deploying WordPress wth Capistrano and Composer
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
GP A232 Workshop: Acceptable application of analytics for your academic areas
GP A204 A Survey of WordPress Online Learning Plugins
GP A236 Them and us: Using the WordPress REST API to Display both public and private content
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
GP A232 Workshop: Acceptable application of analytics for your academic areas
GP A204 I do(n’t) Belong Here
GP A236 Tools and Approaches for Managing Content, Accessibility and Web Identity at Scale
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
GP A232 Workshop: Finding eternal REST: An undead guide to building JS front ends for WordPress
GP A204 Open Access Publishing and WordPress
GP A236 How to Scale WordPress Across a University
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
GP A232 Workshop: Finding eternal REST: An undead guide to building JS front ends for WordPress
GP A204 So, you redesigned your website… Now What?
GP A236 WordPress High Performance Boosting
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
GP A232 Interview like a journalist, write like a marketer: Telling stories with hear… and accuracy
GP A204 Mobilizing 200 Reluctant Content Creators
GP A236 Level up Your WordPress Security
