See the AT Around Us Assignment for more details.
You can find an example after the template. Reference to any linked content should be placed at the end of your document. Make sure that your document meets the expectations for an accessible document described in the Fall 2024 Accessible Documents Canvas Outcome. Here is a UW web page about how to make accessible documents and a UW video about how to make accessible documents.
Audio Books. Audio Books are books that are read by a (typically human) narrator. You can listen to them at various speeds.
Here is a first person account by a blind person named Daniel [1] about using audiobooks. He shows how to use a reader. He does not talk much about how it falls short but mentions it is free. This is not a scripted teaching video or advertisement.
Note, this first person account would receive a “competent” but not “excellent” grade because of its lack of commentary on pros and cons and relative lack of detail.
They are used by people who are blind or low vision, as well as people who are dyslexic or cannot look at a screen without experiencing chronic illness symptoms such as nausea or cannot turn a page easily due to a motor impairment, and described on bookshare.org [2], a website that provides free audio and digital books to students with IEP plans, as well as non-disabled readers [3].
They are free to people with print disabilities, and can be sped up and quick to consume. One weakness I worry about is that it could be difficult to search them, or share a particular passage with someone else, or take notes on a passage and find it again. I couldn’t find a lot of information about this, and I think it is somewhat disability specific. For example, here is a first person account by a sighted person who uses audio books about how he takes notes on them [4]. Clearly that is very different than what a blind person would do.
I enjoy listening to them and discovered that my app has a timer feature which is a nice way to fall asleep, or keep track of time.
I did not use any AI program.