Publishers used in CIS, CS and CAS

According to the survey of CIS, CS and CAS faculty, the following publishers are being used:

• Cengage
  • Cengage/Southwestern
    
  • Course Technology - part of Cengage
  • Thomson - part of Cengage
  • Publisher of the Malik C++ text book
• Labyrinth
• Lynda.com
• McGraw Hill
  • Glencoe - part of McGraw Hill
  • Gregg - part of McGraw Hill
• O'Reilly
• Prentice Hall / Pearson Education
  • Addison-Wesley - part of Pearson
• Paradigm
• Wiley
  • Sybex - part of Wiley

Cengage

All Cengage products come bundled with an Ebook and textbook. The MindTap ebook reader is screen reader accessible, but not keyboard-only accessible. We are hoping to see this change soon, because overall we were impressed with the MindTap ebook reader.

We have done some end-user testing with these Cengage products: CengageNow , SAM2010 and MindTap.

Cengage makes these claims:

• Closed–Captioning: "Audio–visual products © 2010 and later are closed–captioned with accompanying transcripts. If the product you are using is not closed–captioned, submit a request form for either permission to caption the material or for copies of any available transcripts."
• Alt Formats: "If you require an alternate version of homework or testing material that is on some of our less accessible platforms, we can coordinate with the product team to get a Word doc created of those items. You can contact my team at permissionrequest@cengage.com. We will work with the product team and Michele to get your students what they need to be successful. Turnaround varies (5-10 days to 4-6 weeks). If a lot of transcripts or if it's a big mapping project (online product homework questions to a word version of a testbank), the product team will deliver them to you in chunks. What they will need to know from you is when the professor plans to use the material in the class. Or if you could supply a copy of the professors syllabus that would help."

This information was supplied by:

Karen Lee
Sr. Mgr, IP Granting
500 Terry Francois Boulevard, Second Floor, San Francisco, CA 94158
(o) 415.839.2451| (e) karen.lee@cengage.com | www.cengage.com/permissions

Labyrinth

Labyrinth is an independent publisher with their own digital materials. We are in the process of contacting them for a VPAT.

Lynda.com

Videos are mostly captioned, but their website and the educational materials are not fully keyboard and screen reader accessible, at the present time. Here's Lynda.com's reply to an inquiry about this:

"We are currently working towards being a fully keyboard-navigatable experience and have tabbed navigation for most areas of our site. We are aiming for a re-audit of our entire site for 508 compliance, including tabbed navigation by the end of June. This is an ongoing area of focus and something that we have in our designs for all new navigation as we continuously update the site. I hope this helps answer your question. Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance."

McGraw Hill

McGraw-Hill uses the Connect platform for most of their online courses. Currently Connect is not accessible. Here is their roadmap to accessibility (some deadlines which they've missed already.)

Aleks, McGraw Hill's math and science platform is fairly accessible. They don't offer a solution for graphical problems though. We've asked them to provide us with the images and their problems, so we could create tactile graphics for those problems. They have not responded to this request. Here's our more in-depth analysis of ALEKS.

O'Reilly:

The only digital materials they have are ebooks. If books are available as an Adobe Digital Edition, then they should be quite accessible. If not, we will need to do further testing.

Paradigm:

Paradigm is an independent publisher. The only digital materials they have are some ebooks which they distribute through EBSCO and ebrary.

The Ebrary app is overall pretty accessible, if the book is available for download as an Adobe Digital Edition. Student needs to create an account and set their preferences to accessibility mode

Pearson/Prentice Hall/ Addison-Wesley

Karen has multiple questions in to Pearson about their VPATs. Pearson claims they are very accessible now that they have HTML5 ebooks, but we have yet to find their claims are justifiable. According to Elaine Ober, the Pearson Associate Director of Accessibility and Compliance, you can find out exactly which titles are accessible for MyMathLab, MyStatLab, MyReadingLab and MyWritingLab, ticking the box for “Accessible ebook” under the Course Features section. She also sent us this list of accessible titles in Social Science, Business, Health Science , Spanish and Criminal Justice.

For titles that don't appear in these lists, please contact Karen Sorensen to verify accessibility.

Wiley

Wiley still has a ways to go before their online products are accessible. Here's a VPAT for WileyPlus. If you use a different Wiley product, please let Karen Sorensen know and she will request a VPAT.