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AI and Accommodations: Office of Student Accessibility Services

For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Crystal Velasco, USC Office of Student Accessibility Services, along with Jason Dove and Sakib Shariar from the USC Brightspace Team, explore how AI technology intersects with student accommodations, highlighting how tools like speech-to-text, captioning, screen readers, and note-taking tools are already part of many students’ learning. They also demonstrate how Brightspace’s Panorama tool supports accessible course design by identifying barriers, flagging issues, and generating alternative formats that help ensure course materials work effectively with assistive technologies.

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From Accessibility to Capability: AI for Students With Diverse Visual Abilities

For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on Accessibility and AI, Erin Crutcher, a USC graduate student in the Healthcare Decision Analysis program at USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, highlights the transformative potential of AI for students with low vision, demonstrating how these tools significantly improved her own access to course materials and academic workflows, creating a more equitable experience in the program and allowing her to learn at the pace of her peers. She also shares how using Tabular by Reliant to structure unorganized research data enabled her to accelerate a study on patient voice in drug development and move more quickly toward publication.

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