And let's kind of dive in. So what's what's on the agenda.

 First up we're going to talk about kind of what's trending right now. Some of the things might be things that you're

 Used to knowing used to talking about right now and we're going to talk about some updates that have gone on in our field and then kind of what we're projecting sort of is coming our way. So to start off, kind of, let's talk about what's trending.

 Now when I've done this session in the past. If you've been able to join us for one or the ones before

 We've had 60 minutes I've tried to cram as many things as many topics as many updates as many demos, as I can in an hour. It felt a little bit, just like a hot potato with how much we're doing

 Just kind of that drinking out of a fire hose type of an expression. And while that was really great and wonderful.

 I also feel like over this last year, there's been so many changes and then a 45 minute session made it really challenging for me to be able to fit in things and not overwhelm everybody

 So as a result, I'm taking a little bit different approach this year. I hope you're kind of willing to go on this journey with me.

 But with it. Instead, I'm hoping to kind of do this sort of 30,000 foot overview

 The picture on the screen here is actually a pair of glasses with a beautiful kind of mountain outdoor background that's

 very fuzzy and not clear, but the pair of glasses kind of puts into perspective and allows you to really see what's going on in this unclear background.

 And that's kind of my hope today is to

 Kind of share some insights as someone who used to work in higher ed who still is very connected to the higher ed industry who really follows trends likes to look at things from a holistic

 Systemic perspective to really kind of impact and tried to do and help people see kind of the direction they need to go. So again, instead of that like Fast and Furious let's kind of take that wider view to kind of help us get perspective of what's gone on.

 Over the last few months last almost year and then kind of where we're thinking things are going to go for a while.

 So first and foremost, we've all seen the shift to online learning and much of our lives being put online.

 I know that Valerie and Chris and I were all talking about this when we were kind of queuing up today's session is just how everything is really moved to online. Obviously, we're not together in Denver today. And this is true for education as well.

 The upside of this as as that it's really driven developers to really push that boundary and to get more content more development done faster.

 Some of the things that I've talked to industry wise people who work in the field is that they've kind of done, you know, five years or two years worth of work in a matter of eight months.

 It's really pushed a boom of new products, it's pushed the boundaries of what's possible and as people on kind of the side of consumer as

 We're kind of winning out in a way I mean as much as it's not fun to be online for many people it has benefited some but in order to kind of get that access. It's really put in front of all of us more options, more supports more tools than ever.

 Let's go back there we go tools to supply online line. And that's the side, we should be on

 So some of the tools that have been really central to higher education. This past year that we've seen really boom, first and foremost, have been these lockdown testing browsers. And there's a dime a dozen out there every school is adopting one

 Some are adopting more than one, sometimes it's departments.

 But kind of to emerging themes with them is what we're seeing with them first and foremost we're seeing student pushback.

 Students are not liking to be on camera, they're feeling like Big Brother is watching them when they're taking tests.

 This is sometimes increasing some of the students anxiety that comes around the testing and assessment part of education. And so this is something that we're going to kind of want to watch as well.

 What happens with students. Is there going to be some type of organization on campuses with students feeling that it's just too much.

 Second, we're seeing these struggles around at and accessibility integration with these tools.

 They have a long way to go in regards to making sure that the tools work for all learners. In addition, having that kind of seamless at integration.

 Is something again that there's a long way to go around as well. So what's kind of to come with this will see again how fast and furious. This

 Accessibility gets built out these integrations get built out for students. Next up video conferencing platforms.

 Obviously a lot of us are living our lives on these right now if we are working from home, learning from home.

 And so not only have there been more emphasis on them or use of them. But the features within them have been built out. And then also, we're seeing some new ones kind of start to percolate up that kind of do this in a different way.

 So kind of watch for those again is accessibility going to be a huge question. Is it gonna, you know, be able to meet all those needs. As always, but kind of watch for those and see if that's kind of going to change what schools adopt or try it will be interesting for sure.

 If you didn't have a learning management system before on your campus.

 You more than likely adopted one because it's kind of become this must have and having one that's real Boston is really going to work for

 Your institution and the type of learning, you have online is going to be key.

 And then I've kind of hinted at this throughout this entire slide is, you know, how do we make these accessible. How do we get students that access that they're needing

 If the tool isn't innately accessible. So this is something that's just going to continue to be a challenge for us and it's going to continue to be something that we're just going to have to probably retro actively address until we get that full access from these developers.

 Next up topic wise equity equity has become a complete and total buzzword over the last six months.

 If you don't know what equity is it's kind of a mash up of technology and equity THROWING IT TOGETHER TO BE equity.

 And essentially, it's do the individuals in our world have equitable access to technology in order to learn in order to work in order to live.

 And this has really put a spotlight on the equity divide

 There's a huge number of young adults in this world, the young people who are trying to learn school districts are

 Trying to get devices and good internet connectivity. And so this is something that's really going to start to be looked at, at a hopefully a more systemic level of how do we do this in our communities.

 I know with some of the Cures Act funding that's come out in cities and states and regions, they're trying to help with some of this digital divide, but we'll see kind of where this goes. And if there's kind of larger initiatives throughout

 Kind of paired with the equity is digital literacy

 What we're seeing and what I've seen for many years working with the population of students that I've worked with that my institutions is that

 There's always been this digital literacy gap or this digital literacy divide

 You know, we have students who are coming to college and higher ed who we think have digital literacy and what we've learned is that they have digital literacy

 Around the tools that they use kind of everyday their cell phones or the apps that they're using. They don't always have that

 Digital Literacy around using a computer and what programs do I need to use and how do I install things

 I actually had a really insightful conversation with a group of higher education professionals at one of the colleges and Minnesota this week about this and just how impactful. It's been

 And so I think right now. This is going to actually really shine a light again on these two pieces this tech witty and then also this digital literacy

 Ironically, right before I have done this section I actually got a text from my sister. She's a college student here in Minnesota, where we both live

 And this actually got brought up in her class with a local company that's an organization that supports literacy

 And just what this means. So it's getting to the young people in our society or young adults. It's getting kind of brought up about that national level, we'll kind of see where this goes as well.

 We're lucky enough today to have a fantastic live caption or on our session, but I know that in a lot of the schools that I'm talking with

 Where my peers still work in Minnesota and nationally. There's been an exponential increase in the amount of requests for live captioning.

 Which is fantastic because students are requesting what they need. You're seeing different students getting to your offices, however.

 A lot of times, this is putting a strain on an office to try to find people to have enough captures to go around.

 What we're seeing on the upside is that there are some AI machine learning or automatic caption solutions that are kind of taking off technology wise.

 Again, not a substitute for an in person capture, but these are tools and the way that they're integrated either kind of by themselves, or with a human is really kind of pushing the field in this area forward.

 Long term costs of these live captures obviously can be a struggle for institutions, we're going to talk more about this in a little bit.

 But just know that this is something that's going on. And if it hasn't reached your campus yet.

 It likely will and likely you're going to have administrators who are talking to you more about this and trying to

 Find. Is there a solution that's sustainable, is there a more cost effective solution to students really need

 To have this and or do we start to see administrators trying to push back on us and saying, well, let's have one section that's caption for every class, for example, as opposed to giving students that choice.

 I haven't heard too many rumblings of that yet from talking and working with schools in my role.

 But it's something that tends to percolate quite a bit when budgets get tight. Again, we're gonna talk about budgets more in a little bit.

 But it's something that comes up all the time. You know, is there a way for us to streamline access and accessibility and a lot of times, the answer is no, because then it takes away student choice student ability to kind of

 Be have that freedom to bounce around between classes change things, pick the section, they want, etc. So something to kind of keep in your head that might be coming forward, especially this coming spring.

 Something else we've seen is wider a pub adoption and this is something that's slowly been building over the last few years.

 Really has taken off since last year at HGA. There are a lot of sessions about he pubs and what's been changing. Again, we're seeing that again this year just going through the session list lots on a pub.

 publishers and organizations are doubling down with trying to get our field to use them as opposed to PDFs or other file formats.

 I know that it's still very foreign to Disability Resource Providers, they still don't know what to do with them, how they work. So there definitely needs to be some education there.

 There was a white paper that came out probably about a month and a half ago, although it could be a little longer, or a little shorter. I feel like

 With coven time the days and the weeks kind of all blend together sometimes, but the White Paper is actually linked in

 The PowerPoint and also the pdf of the slide deck. It was called

 It's time to use the modern digital publishing format for your organization's documents. So if you want to read it if you want to become more informed I'd encourage you to link out to it and read it.

 It just kind of talks about, you know, where they've come and why he pop is a great solution for students.

 And because of this, a lot of media companies that focus on literacy support for students are following suit and doubling down on their efforts as well to try to make it so students can access those he pubs, where they're at.

 So something just to kind of think about if you're looking for some things to kind of do some professional development around, you're like, I don't really know a lot about he pubs.

 This might be something good to kind of look into play around with dig deeper and or catch a session this week on

 So that being said, that's kind of our part one, I'm going to pop up here. Look at the Q AMP a

 Karen asked, would you say that equity is the same as digital divide.

 Karen, I think, I think the better definition is kind of that equity is having access maybe to the physical devices, the Internet, the technology.

 Kind of that digital literacy is do you have the kind of knowledge base around using the technology and I think they both kind of fall under the umbrella of digital divide.

 I'm not an expert on this. If somebody is an expert on these definitions, feel free to, you know, pop your thoughts in

 Or raise your hand and we can talk about it for a minute, but I just know right now there's a lot of individuals in our world who are struggling to get access to kind of the things that they had in person. And because of this,

 Hopefully that answers your questions if anyone has a thought I'll give it just a second, to see if anyone wants to kind of pop in otherwise we'll keep moving on today.

 Not seeing anything

 Got something in the chat.

 And john through a question in the chat. JOHN Is textile planning to add support for a pub soon.

 John good news. We have had support for he pubs actually for a long time and we did actually build out our EP reader this past March and updated it

 If you want more information about that. I can definitely connect with you.

 Or someone of us can we can get you a video. We can get you some information about it, just so that you're up to date on it. I've got your name. I just wrote it down. So I'll make sure someone connects with you on that.

 My pleasure. JOHN want to make sure that you have the information you need. So

 All right, since there's no thoughts on that. Let's keep moving along. So we got a lot to cover. So let's talk about some of the updates first

 All right.

 Some of the big updates that we've seen in the access at field this year have been really supports.

 Because of the move to online learning. It's really been the underlying theme and what companies have focused on which shouldn't necessarily be a surprise to anyone.

 And more than likely, if you have a tech company that you use a tech company that you follow your kind of watching things from a global perspective.

 You've probably seen it. A lot of the updates have included things like ease of use, making sure the user experiences better building an accessibility is if you've been a squeaky enough we all are those using the tool have been squeaky enough

 Features to help support that transition between in person to blended to hybrid 200% online.

 It really has been a kick in high gear for these companies to focus on these needs. And these areas.

 Obviously there's a long way to go. A lot of the new companies out there are just trying to get platforms out there for us. And these will come as time goes on.

 But I can guarantee both from a personal level from talking to colleagues that I work with, I'm close with a lot of

 The tech companies as someone who used to use the tools for 10 years and now I work in the field. I've kept those relationships.

 From who I've talked to, there's tons of work being done to build these out. We want to meet consumers, where they're at. We want to make sure that our tools are doing what you need. And so that's what the big focus has been on

 Just from personal perspective personal experience, one of our tools went through a dozen updates. Some of them big, some of them tiny in a three month time period from March, April and May during the first three months of coded so know that there's work being done on the back side.

 So I mentioned a little bit about kind of the captioning and the AI and that being something with

 The need for more captures just the shortage with the number of students and individuals needing support.

 But one of the big updates. That's have come out and that we've seen is this built in speech recognition integration with kind of our video.

 Platforms that we've been using things like Google Hangouts now has an integration, you can self yourself turn on captions

 My company uses Google. We do Hangouts all the time. So it's really easy to actually go in there and just click turn on captions

 So you can choose yourself. You don't have to necessarily request from your company it but again.

 You, they're not 100% if you need that access likely you're going to need a human caption or sell or a hybrid between a human, and then some of the AI machine learning behind it.

 Zoom also has this built in as well. It's kind of ebbing and flowing. What is exactly available.

 When I was putting this together a few weeks ago, before we had to post it. It was available for k 12 institutions. Higher Ed was on the horizon, and I heard it with soon.

 And then individual accounts as well. But there is kind of a paid zoom account beta program that I've linked here.

 For more information, if you want to explore this more again, they're not perfect. They're not going to get you that 100%

 But if you need kind of that stop gap. You're just someone who, because of the way that meetings are done having that would be beneficial.

 I know we've had some company meetings where people have turned it on, just for the sheer fact that it gets to be a lot during the day, it can really be beneficial for individuals.

 And with this at accessibility companies have kind of up to their integration have up the work that they've done.

 In regards to getting not just built in, but also things that you can pair with or integrate into these platforms.

 Tools like Otter EVA rev orbit, some of whom are here this week at

 AG have done some build outs with these companies to get access. I know that on kind of the Minnesota headless serve one of the questions that came up a few months ago was in regards to this.

 What are you doing, we can't find captures fast enough for students and doing something like this as a stopgap as a kind of step until we find a caption or because it might take us a little bit of time.

 Was to get students access to kind of these these tools. Instead, for the time being, for some students, it was enough. Some students still didn't need the human caption or the live capture

 But know that these are kind of here as a backup for students, especially if you need to kind of flip the switch and get things moving pretty quickly.

 I'm lucky enough to work in a state where we have some great people who love to collaborate and this web caption or tool is one that I learned about just probably a month and a half ago now.

 It's a free tool out there. It hasn't gotten a ton of buzz. But it's a free tool called Web capture. It's a Chrome browser extension and allows you to do kind of on the fly.

 Captions with zoom. If you haven't checked it out. I'd encourage you to do so I have to give my buddy Neil a shout out for this.

 There is still some kind of backend work that it has to do to add it in.

 From an admin side. But again, if you're struggling on your campus for something around this while you get live captures this might be another option as well.

 Especially if budgets are tight right now. I know I keep talking about it. I keep hinting that we're going to talk about it and we well but just know that this is a tool out there that you could potentially tap into.

 So quickly because I do work for text help. I just want to give you a couple heads up of things that we are working on have been working on as we start to move kind of towards what are some kind of overviews of product development and some things that have come up in this section.

 For reading. Right. We do have a new talking type for Windows build out and other words are dictation tool.

 That was released, you can still use the old version but know that that's something that we've worked on developing because our customers have asked for it.

 And then one of the big overhauls we're doing right now is we've actually doing a bunch of development around our PDF reader. And then also our read and write toolbar as well so

 You might not see a lot of updates come out with this until we kind of have our big reveal. But know that that's come out one of the ones I don't have on here is our integration with responders, which we'll talk about here in a couple minutes.

 On the equation side of things. Um, I did this session last year, the year before, something like that.

 And I debunked. One of the big myths that are tools don't work with Office 365

 And that was specifically read right so I'm happy to report that over the last year, we've done a bunch of integration and build out with Office 365 so in a quiz show you can access for it online, for example.

 That's there you can sign in with your Microsoft login. I know a lot of us are Microsoft schools here to just know that that access is out there. If you've been waiting for it.

 We also do have integration with Windows PowerPoint. So if your faculty are creating windows PowerPoint or I should say Microsoft PowerPoint.

 On a Windows computer, they can create PowerPoints using a quiz show and have those equations. And when they lecture, either in person. Someday, or you're still in person or remotely.

 We also had a decal bright space integration come out. It's an LTA integration.

 With a bunch of STEM tools kind of come to fruition and start to work their way down through all the different places. Our tools work.

 We have a chemical viewer. We have a graphing calculator. Bunch of other really cool a periodic table that's interactive. So no those are built in.

 We have a copy as math button that we added in allowing you to copy math and to other places that don't necessarily

 Aren't like Google where it works or in Microsoft where it works. It allows you to kind of take that math anywhere you can copy and paste things

 And then the last one I like to mention is that we did have an alt text change within G. Sweet. In addition to getting spoken text, you're also getting a mathematical version of the text as well, which again was customer driven so

 I mentioned that reason right had a build out for support in lockdown browsers specifically responded and I would

 I need to give a shout out to all the other companies that have done build out. I know, read speaker has done work Kurzweil has done work, we're all trying to kind of get at those lockdown browsers.

 So know that we just like the others have some integration.

 If you have questions about this, please let me know. But know that we do work in many of the lockdown browsers out there. I've done some personal testing myself with schools.

 It's not just responded for seeing it work in other places as well.

 I know that there's been some questions in regards to some of the other at that students tend to use dragon dual monitors comes up a lot on websites.

 What we keep falling back to is a lot of times we have to pull students out of that secure testing environment in order to get there at to work still so if you were hoping kind of for that silver bullet.

 Is there something that definitely works yet, I have to say there's not yet we're still kind of balancing this that test security versus are we trying to you know get students access so

 All right. Next slide.

 So with this move to online learning. I know a lot of schools adopted these testing browsers that was kind of a fast and furious adoption.

 There was not from my perspective and talking with schools with colleagues with peers of mine.

 A lot of that kind of proactive accessibility work done to make sure these tools are accessible and work for students.

 It was a lot of adopting kind of that fast and furious. And so whenever I work with schools and ever I consult with schools or I talk with schools.

 I always like to try to hit home and remind them that you know when you're adopting tools, whether they be these kind of systemic ones across campus.

 Or you're trying to adopt things that are at related you're trying to do something for better access, you know,

 Is it going to meet students and all the educational environments that students are working within. So if you're trying to find a tool for example for students. They're working, they're learning from afar. They're needing some type of a tea.

 Is it going to work for students, wherever they go. Or is it only going to work in this place in this place parts, A, C, and D, but never in be

 So something that kind of think of, you know, is there 12 there that'll kind of do it all for students are you addressing the needs and all the problems that arise.

 You know, are you making sure that it works here for faculty, it works for accessibility works for students with disabilities.

 All that or are you just kind of hearing this need kind of grumbling and you're just kind of like we got to get something in place.

 We need to put something in place. Let's just do this as opposed to have you taken that kind of systematic look at what's going to be best for you and your students.

 And your institution. So these are things I always like to talk with institutions about is, again, are you just kind of making a quick decision or is it something that

 You've kind of put some thought into and realize it's a sustainable solution.

 I always like to touch on all format and printed course materials I mentioned this a little bit in our last section.

 But in addition to the move to he pubs. We're also seeing an increase in publisher accessibility.

 This has been kind of something that's slowly been building slowly been moving along. Over the years, which is fantastic.

 But one of the things that came out more recently is that there was an FB Pearson agreement to enhance the access of products and course material culture.

 They're doing a lot with accessibility within their company in regards to their materials. I've linked the agreement in the slide deck. So if you want to read about it more, feel free to do so. I know that Kurzweil has a collaboration with some publishers out there.

 I'm curious if these agreements that are kind of coming forth these efforts are really going to push the envelope again for other publishers

 Almost kind of that keeping up with the Joneses mentality. Well, Pearson has this and in order to stay competitive in the market. We're going to have to do that as a

 Competitor company in the publishing market and will this really again help you as those who are getting course materials to students is this going to help you in the long run.

 Will kind of have to see over the next few months. The next year, obviously, anything we can do to keep pushing accessibility forward from the gecko is huge. I think in everyone's eyes. That's why we're here. That's why we do the jobs we do

 for note taking sauna, since they had glean mobile come out last year at this conference, they kind of released glean

 glean mobile as a new version of the tool. So know that that's out there. If you haven't checked it out there around this week. So I'd encourage you to reach out

 Again they focused and double down on features that are supporting online learning.

 I know that live scribe echoes every year I do the session, it comes out. Are they going away. The rumor continues. And the answer is no, they're not going away. I just read on a listserv. The other day that know

 The apples are staying. Don't worry about it. There are times of the year where there's just so many people buying these tools that it's hard to get your hands on them. But that doesn't mean they're going away.

 However, live Skype did do a release of a new pen called the symphony similar ish to the ones that have recently come out over the years just kind of more streamline

 More kind of simplistic looking not so big and bulky, but if you haven't checked it out, go and check a peek at what it looks like.

 And then these transcription apps are huge as well. I know that I've done some sessions around note taking as of recently and transcriptions getting that text for students to be able to do their note taking independently.

 Or even just having that transcript in front of them. Huge in the know, taking industry right now when I worked with students and Disability Resource offices, I constantly had the conversations with them are transcripts, the right way to go or not.

 For many years, we thought no typically not because it's just overwhelming the amount of content that students have to weed through. I know that there's some people out there and some students who this does work for

 But just know that they're out there. It's something that students likely are going to be asking you more about. So if you don't know a lot about the tools out there to something that might be beneficial for you to kind of brush up on

 And then the last slide for this section. Before I check the questions kind of some other notables that we have

 Inspiration version 10 came out. I've got a link in here, what's new and version 10

 There was an article that was published by the company. I know that inspiration kind of went away for a while and then it came back. So know that they do have a newer version out

 Not a ton of new features, but some stuff that you might be interested in. I was 14 came out with with iOS 14 came out in the last few months.

 And things like sound recognition headphone accommodations. There's some physical things for back tapping and accessibility updates to voiceover

 FaceTime can detect sign language. Now, so just like Apple always does there in kid continuing to push that accessibility continuing to build this out.

 There's always things that they're doing. Now one thing that just kind of percolated within the last 48 hours or so.

 On the resident listserv. If any of you are on that the at forums is that dragon is changing kind of the way things are done for their software in the next few months.

 It sounds like there's a price change coming as of December 1

 They're going to sunset, the product that the way it's built they're moving it to more of a subscription model with a monthly base price and it's going to be based in the cloud as well.

 Other than that, I don't have a lot of details. If you want more information, I can try to provide it to you just send me a chat in the move app and I can give to you what I know.

 It does sound like it's going to, as we talked about a little bit ago that digital divide.

 It's going to be challenging for some individuals who don't get that internet access. If the tool is going to be cloud based

 It sounds like funding might be an issue because it's an increase, and then also for places like voc rehab. There's some rumblings of that being a challenge as well for the way that they support their, their clients. So let's look real quickly at

 Questions before we talk about the next session. Has anyone tested the accuracy of human captions versus automated

 I did a little bit of this Mary when I was at my last institution with some products that were coming out.

 A lot of times, it comes down to their more accurate. The little more lag time that there is. So if you're waiting six 810 seconds. They tend to be a little bit better because I can go back and kind of be corrected based on the context.

 Quicker captions. They're going to keep students kind of going with the time. However, it's not necessarily going to be

 As accurate. So if anyone has any more information. Feel free to pop it in. We can also start a chat elsewhere about this just talking type have a voice profile. No, it does not have a voice profile. It just kind of innately as is they just kind of go in and

 Just talking type but tends to do a pretty good job. From what I understand, obviously it's not going to be like a dragon where you do have a voice profile.

 But kind of for the students who are needing it for basic dictation. It tends to work pretty well. And I say that not just because I work here, but also just in working with students.

 With high incidence disabilities for many years. I'm kind of basic dictation for some students is enough to help them get thoughts from kind of heads to hands to paper.

 Any specific transcription apps, I recommend. I don't. A lot of it depends on where the student is working, what tools they have access to what technology they have access to

 I'm big on just meeting students where they're at. So that's always a question I asked when working with people who say, do you have a recommendation I always say what platforms do the students have access to, for example, so

 If you want to reach out. Definitely Lisa definitely Robert you both had the same question. I'd be happy to kind of kick the dirt around with you and provide some suggestions.

 What are the listserv that you subscribe to so that I can keep up with turning technology. Amanda, great question, and I did a

 Or if you're in a head member I did a hub article a couple months ago about kind of where I go to stay up on the loop on things.

 I can write your name down send you the names of some of the ones that I subscribed to. I'm just writing your name down so I can reach out, but I subscribed to Athan ahead if you're in a head member of the tech one

 I do Athan Reza, I'm on the quiet QA et listserv the list kind of goes on and on out there, but I can kind of pull together a list if anyone else is interested in knowing what I stay up on the free to shoot me a message in the Uber app. And I'll compile a list and send it out as well.

 Don says we often recommend dragon, because it's not going to a server, especially for HIPAA content.

 What do the changes mean for information at dawn. I have no idea. I literally saw one lengthy post on the resin a listserv. I'm happy to send out the info to that I have. But what it means. I think it's a lot of

 A lot of unknown. As of right now and then, Robin. Thanks for piping in you said human caption is should be 95% accurate 80 to 85 for automated. Perfect. That's great.

 And Lisa said dragon is pushing it anywhere app, which is in the cloud. And then one you want to know about the listeners to perfect. Let me write down your name.

Krista Greear: And then original. We actually have a couple of questions in the chat that didn't

 Quite

 Do any perfect

Krista Greear: So it looks like john is asking does the office 365 integration allow for reading of PDFs uploaded into one drive

 There's a way to get it to read. Yes, correct. There's a way of doing so if you have the PDF reader uploaded or the extension, it will allow you to kind of click on an icon and allow you to open it up with the PDF reader. Okay.

Krista Greear: Great. And then another one john also asks, I'm curious about book share support in reading right

 That's a great question. Um, JOHN I will reach out to you with more information. I want to be thoughtful that we've got about five minutes left. But I'll make a note and I'll reach out to you in Huda or by email to get you information so

Krista Greear: Um, and Rachel if getting information about your listeners would be appropriate for the whole conference to see we can actually update your session description so that way all the presenter all the participants would need to do is go to your session page and then get that info in Cuba.

 Perfect Krista, I will work with you after the fact to get you that

Krista Greear: List so we can update it.

Krista Greear: Perfect. Awesome.

 All right, let's go through the last few slides that I've got since we've got about five minutes left. And we'll take any questions.

 I've talked about budget quite a bit. I've hinted at it budgets strain. If you aren't feeling it yet. And already, it's coming.

 Between the decrease in the number of students enrolled right now, plus the increase in coven costs.

 Were projecting five years of budget strain and higher education. I'm hoping it's not that much, but just know that likely things are going to be challenging for the foreseeable future.

 And because of that, the term that we're going to hear a lot more about if you're not hearing it already is this data dis data driven decision making.

 It's key. I'm using this kind of this statement all the time when I'm working with schools and institutions, you're going to have to be able to

 Have data to prove what you need. And I've got a funny meme up on the screen. It's Tom Cruise from the movie Jerry Maguire instead of him screaming into his cell phone. Show me the money.

 He's screaming. Show me the data. So just know that this is coming and likely it's going to be a good chunk of the time you spend and moving forward around budgets, if you

 Do budgets on your campus, you have anything to do with budgets. What I'm suggesting you do

 Is if you do have tech tools on your campus that you need to have for access for students is you do some proactive advocacy of the tool benefit. So if you have some tool.

 You can't not have it for students because it's providing access. Don't wait until the budget comes around, do some proactive advocacy with your supervisors or with the administration.

 To help them see the benefits of the tool just so that it's not easily on the chopping block.

 also encouraged places to have a backup for funding or a long term solution.

 Can you apply for grants is there soft money are their donors on your campus, you could potentially bridge this gap if for some reason budgets in your area get caught in something

 does end up leaving. Are there non negotiable. Be sure to have that, you know, maybe a rank order list of, you know, this is what we really want and strive for at all.

 But the big thing is don't let momentum slow on your campus. If you have tools that students are using continue to push them out to students continue to get that data continue to get students

 Like voices or testimonials around these tools. If you aren't feeling the budget strain. It's coming. I know a lot of schools start budgets. This time of year through February. This is coming, be warned.

 Again, we're going to continue to see this rapid development of at tools. I mentioned it quickest development, we've seen in years.

 It means that there's high competition out there and that means for users like you all that are using the tools with students.

 You're gonna you're going to benefit time over time I compare this to kind of the app craze that we saw between six and eight years ago when I really kind of jumped into the ET field two feet.

 We're going to see unprecedented development and have all ready for things in the technology world. So, no that's that's coming

 And then I kind of hinted at this a couple minutes ago.

 But there's going to be rapid adoption of ed tech tools. I mentioned kind of the lockdown browsers.

 This is going to continue on your campus faculty are going to see things that are exciting and that they're going to want in their

 In their classes to kind of help them kind of, you know, solve that problem or that that need that they have

 And so you might have to be along with anyone doing accessibility on your campus kind of that voice for has the tool been fully vetted for accessibility. Is it accessible. How much is it going to take us to do retroactive accommodations

 We're always probably going to be doing that for the foreseeable future, but it's going to give us some job security for a while. Hopefully, sadly, obviously it's not fully accessible all the time, but just know that this is adoption is going to continue

 Let's in the last minute, because I want to give Chris a minute at the end.

 Feel free to throw any questions in the chat. I'll get to what I can. In the next minute. My contact information is up on the screen. Reach out anytime reach out to me and Hoover.

 I'm happy to do quick kind of live chats. Like I said, if you just want to talk at for fun or accessibility. I love to do that at conferences. So I'm happy to do that. I'm happy to talk specific product information to just reach out

 My contact is here, Hoover, Sarah. We're going to put the the list up we're going to work on that this week.

 Megan as well. And then Rachel recommend some apps or browser sites that help with voice to text for users who have trouble typing.

 I'm Rachel I'll reach out to you personally on that just because I know. Like I said, I want to get give Krista this last minute for any last minute things so Krista I'll pass it back to you.

Krista Greear: Okay, awesome. Thanks so much. Fabulous presentation really high engagement high number of participants.

Krista Greear: I've put in the evaluation link a couple of times, it's a short Bitly bi T period ly forward slash capital A, capital H capital G 32295 please do fill that out so that we ritual know that

Krista Greear: You want her back next year and that the conference organizers need to select her session. And because we are the last session of the day I feel comfortable saying we can hang out for another maybe 10 minutes at the most. As you mean Rachel doesn't have a conflicting engagement.

 No, I got nothing. So if you have questions, feel free to throw them in the Q AMP. A otherwise just thanks for having me today. This is always kind of a highlight of my year getting to kind of pull those together for everyone.

Krista Greear: Excellent. Alright, thanks so much everybody will stick around for another couple of minutes and keep an eye on that Hoover. Thank you.