In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students’ midterm. It was about the…

  • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    You’d have to be careful to craft the message in a way that a vision-impaired student would know to ignore it though, since assistive tech like a screenreader would suffer the same flaw. But by making it so outlandish helps.

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      2 hours ago

      I think the professor is already aware of anyone in the class who uses assistive technology like that.

    • Andy@slrpnk.net
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      I don’t think so. I think that if you were blind and a screen reader have you those instructions, you’d likely ask a sighted friend to check if the screen reader glitched out message the professor for clarification.

      I also wouldn’t be surprised if some blind students immediately understood what they were hearing.