[GUI-Talk] Online courses

Sat Jul 6 18:06:59 UTC 2019

Sorry folks; I thought I  was sending this to Allen privately.

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From: GUI-Talk <gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Farwaneh, Samira - (farwaneh) via GUI-Talk
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Cc: Farwaneh, Samira - (farwaneh) <farwaneh at email.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: [GUI-Talk] Online courses

Hello Allen

You might be surprised to receive a response a year and nine months later from sending your message! I saved your message for a response then it disappeared under piles of incoming messages.

You are correct; I am the person you helped back in Iowa City. Thanks to you and everyone I Iowa who helped me get on my feet, I am now a tenured associate professor at the University of Arizona. This could not have happened without the training and support I received in Iowa City and Des Moines. 

How did you end up at DHS?

I also remember your brother Chris Hoffman who was a student at UI when I was there. How is he doing now?

Best
Samira

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Cc: Hoffman, Allen <allen.hoffman at hq.dhs.gov>
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Online courses

Wow!
You actually are   the person I provided some minimal mobility assistance for way back in Iowa city in the 80s.
Hope all is well with you.

I can't speak to the LMS(s) you note here but can recommend Moodle as it is capable of being used to deliver accessibile training.  However, that said, if your course developers don't do their jobs the LMS won't help.  The nice thing with Moodle is that if set up for educational setting, it provides the ability for teachers to create training without being coders, while simultaneously allowing template driven set up to ddrive them to ensure accessibility as well, and when there is something that isn't accessible its open source so the school can either hire someone to fix it and share the update with the community, or have in-house staff programmers fix it and share back.  My office uses Moodle and we find that while we do have to "fix" things sometimes, at lest its not a negotiation if someone wants to or not.

Allen Hoffman
Deputy Executive Director
The Office of Accessible Systems & Technology Department of Homeland Security
202-447-0503 (voice)
allen.hoffman at hq.dhs.gov

DHS Accessibility Helpdesk
202-447-0440 (voice)
202-447-0582 (fax)
accessibility at dhs.gov

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From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Farwaneh, Samira - (farwaneh) via gui-talk
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2017 11:47 AM
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Cc: Farwaneh, Samira - (farwaneh)
Subject: [gui-talk] Online courses

Hello Everyone

Based on your experience with online courses, which program do you find  most accessible with screen readers: Blackboard, Desire to Learn (D2L), or Google Classroom, other?

Thanks
Samira

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Samira Farwaneh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Arabic Language and Linguistics Director of Graduate Studies, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, P.O. Box 210158B; L. F. Marshall #440,  University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0158B
Phone: (520) 621-8629; Fax: (520) 621-2333

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