ATHES Training Day 2005

ATHES is the Assistive Technology in Higher Education Subcommittee of the Colorado Wyoming Consortium of Support Programs for Students with Disabilities.

Below you will find the topics from the 7 April 2005 Training Day presented at Colorado State University.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Digital Formats and Student Access to Text
Common Scanning and OCR programs used for access to text as well as head to head testing of these programs presented by Cath Kilcommons.
Tiger/Tactile Graphics
Powerpoint presentation on the tactile graphics program commonly used for assistive technology presented by Howard Kramer.
Digital Daisy Players - Hardware and Software Based
Overview of the players used for Daisy formatted text (RTF) presented by Marla Roll.
Server Based Assistive Technologies: JAWS vs. SuperNova
Powerpoint presentation by Zuhair M' had (http://www.accesstojobs.com) on the types of server technology and the current state of screen readers support of server technology. Also available are notes taken about this presentation serverAT_notes.rtf . Special thanks to Zuhair for donating his time for this very useful and timely presentation.