Ours is produced by a programme called CELCAT and is outputted as a
table in PDF. Is that considered accessible? I hear different views on
PDF.
John
Dr John S Conway FGS FRGS MNADP FHEA
Disability Officer / Principal Lecturer in Soil Science / Chair,
Research Committee
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Glos GL7 6JS
01285 652531 ext 2234 fax 01285 650219
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Felicity Burgess
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:54 PM
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Subject: Re: Accessibility to Timetables
If I had studied a different subject at undergraduate level, I might
have
had this problem (as whenever I tried to look at the central
timetabling, I
had to give up). Luckily my School transcribes the student timetable
onto
an acrobat document for everyone (because ours is more complex than
other
Schools).
If I needed it transcribing, I would ask my NMH though.
Quoting Tony Catt <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi All,
>
> I am interested to find out if anyone has experience with visually
> impaired students struggling with accessing student timetables. Our
> system shows an image on our intranet of the timetable that only the
> student or specific member of staff can access. However it is in a
> complicated table format which cannot be read very easily through
screen
> reader/magnifier software and does not export to a Word processor.
> Therefore:
>
> 1 has anyone experienced this type of issue before?
> 2 Are there any better timetabling packages out their that produce a
more
> "simple" style of timetable? (not sue what system we have)
> 3 Who in your institution transcribes the timetable into an accessible
> format?
>
> Any suggestions or discussion on this would be most helpful.
>
>
> Kind regards and best wishes
>
> Mr Tony Catt, BA (Hons), HND, MNADP
> Disability Support Officer
> University of Chester
> Parkgate Road
> Chester
> CH1 4BJ
> E: [log in to unmask]
> Monday and Tuesday
> @ Warrington located in room WMA010
> T: 01925 534286
> Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
> @ Chester located in room CBK102
> T: 01244 511008
>
>
>
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