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Two sectoral committees of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities CRUE-TIC and CRUE Student Affairs meet yesterday at the Faculty of Business Sciences of the UPCT in the conference 'Information Technologies for an Accessible University', which has been organized jointly with the Vodafone Foundation, to share initiatives to support teaching adapted to different disabilities.
During the day, two students of the University of Murcia with visual disabilities, who use different technologies to get by in the classroom and facilitate their learning, have exposed their experiences.
"I use software to extend texts and read documents during the classes and another to convert the notes into audio, to avoid eye strain while I study," explains Romina León, a student of the Spanish language.
"Teachers who already know me pass me the adapted material and before the class, so I can follow their explanations like the rest of my classmates, since I can not see the blackboard or the projector," he adds.
"I ask for oral exams because of the writings I almost vomit," revealed Juan Carlos Palazón, who studies Social Education with less than 10% of vision.
"Fortunately, in my career there is a lot of awareness, but before I had found many counselors and teachers who constantly demotivated me, doubting my professional potential, as if I could not do anything more than sell a coupon," he laments.
"They do not believe that a person with a disability can get what they want," he continues.
The event was also attended by UPCT student Francisco Romero, who is collaborating on a project by the Cartagena Polytechnic researcher Antonio Sánchez Kaiser to transmit in real time the video images of the teacher, the blackboard and the projector to the laptops of the students. students, as a measure of support for teacher accessibility.
During the day, among other initiatives, a subtitling club, a community of volunteers that allows people with hearing impairment to access audio-visual content, sound guide projects for museums, identification of buses or stations, were presented. of metro, or the product Mouse4all, an accessibility solution that allows you to use an Android tablet or phone without touching the screen, which has recently been awarded as the best digital solution by the UN.
Source: UPCT
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