Cisco courses for the vision impaired

[Kerry Hoath]

Ahem;
it just so happens you were enrolled whilst there was an accessability 
release of the curriculum in July 2008 where all the diagram descriptions 
prepared by the Curtin team were integrated into the discovery curriculum.


Curtin University has been working closely with cisco since 2002 to make the 
materials accessible. If you'd enrolled back then you would have not gotten 
past the login screen.

Many blind people have been working and testing over the last 5 years to 
increase the accessability of this material for students.
We're trying to get the same concessions from Microsoft, Redhat, Apple and 
others but are finding the going rough.

I'm glad you were able to utilize the accessible material, however note that 
there are no diagram descriptions in exploration, and you may wish to avail 
yourself of our free resources to assist you with your studies.

There are diagram descriptions on http://www.cucat.org/ prepared by our team 
that may assist you in your continuing studies.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cody" <churst35 at verizon.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: Cisco courses for the vision impaired


>I have just completed cisco discovery 1 and 2. I will soon be continuing to 
>Exploration 3 and 4. All of the materials I have used were accessible 
>asside from packet tracer and the online practice tests. I do believe it 
>was mostly my doing along with my instructor to voice to Cisco that 
>something needed to be done and sure enough, over the summer in July, the 
>course became more accessible.
>
> Thanks,
> Cody
>
> ps. if anyone has any suggestions about continuing on or how to make my 
> cisco learning a bit easier please let me know. I was also thinking about 
> going for my CCENT.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:44 PM
> Subject: Cisco courses for the vision impaired
>
>
>> We are running Cisco courses, IT essentials 1, and Discovery 1,
>>
>> Also discovery2 and ITE2 in the second half of the year.
>>
>> Discovery is replacement for CCNA1 and CCNA2 IT Essentials is a general 
>> computer technitions course.
>>
>> You'll need a Windows pc and screen reader, so feel free to set the list 
>> on fire with and i'll explain why we can't use Linux.
>> If anyone has workarounds we'd be happy to hear from them.
>> Each course costs $75, http://www.cucat.org/promo/ for more information, 
>> we take enrollments up until January 27.
>>
>> Email me on or off list if you want more info.
>> Regards, Kerry.
>>
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