Accessibility
Facility Access
- Automatic doors provide wheelchair accessible entrances and exits
- Wheelchair accessible restrooms on all floors
- Elevator
- TTY telephones available at the Check-Out Desks
Library Resources
Please ask for assistance if any library resource is inaccessible.
Audio-Visual Materials
The library makes every effort to acquire closed captioned materials where available.
Library Website
We are working hard to make our website fully accessible. Please direct any comments about the accessibility of our website to Ruth Smith, Library Director.
Library E-Resources
Valencia libraries either subscribe to or purchase access to electronic resources, including online databases, electronic journals and e-books for curriculum support. These electronic resources are housed on the web sites of third-party vendors.
Although the library does not have direct control over changes in accessibility of these web sites, criteria for the selection of e-resources, as stated in the Valencia College Library Collection Development Procedure, include "Accessibility of electronic resources to students with disabilities according to the Section 508 standards of the US Rehabilitation Act."
Chart indicating which e-resource vendors have supplied a Section 508 compliance statement
East
Located on the second floor of Building 4, the library currently carries the following OSD-approved hardware:
- 4 Zoomtext keyboards
- 7 computer stations with a single large 20” monitor
- 1 computer station with dual large 20” monitors
- 2 trackballs
- SARA station (scans and reads)
- CCTV
The OSD software options provided for student use on all library computers are:
- Jaws
- Magic
- Kurzweil 3000
- Dolphin Easy Reader
- Claroread Pro
If help is needed at any computer, copy or printing station, please ask the Computer Desk Lab Assistant in the blue vest for assistance.
Lake Nona
The Lake Nona Campus Library strives to ensure that electronic resources and instructional materials are compliant with accessibility standards. Students requesting accommodations are encouraged to register with the Office for Students with Disabilities. In addition, the Lake Nona Campus Library provides assistive technology and software. All the library computers have the following OSD software installed on their base image:
- Jaws
- Magic
- Zoomtext
- Kurzweil
- Dolphin Easy Reader
- Adobe Reader
Assistive technology available in the Lake Nona Campus library includes:
- SesnseView Duo portable magnifier
- Optelec Clearview CCTV
- Onyx Visuam Enhancement System
- Headphones
Osceola
The Osceola Campus Library currently carries the following OSD-approved hardware:
- SARA
- ClearView Video Magnifier
All computers in the Osceola Campus Library are equipped with the following OSD software:
- Jaws
- Magic
- Kurzweil 3000
- Dolphin Easy Reader
- Dragon Naturally Speaking
West
Computer Workstations & Assistive Technology
E-mail Quick Check Stations
One wheelchair accessible station, with adjustable height table and 21 inch monitor, on the first floor (6-101) and one in the Library Loft located on the second floor.
Print Stations
All print stations in the library are wheelchair accessible. While we are arranging access to these stations for students with visual impairments, please ask for assistance.
OSD Resource Room - First Floor, Room 6-105
The OSD Resource Center is a student study center as well as a good place for interpreters to use. The room contains the following hardware and software:
- Sorenson VP system
- Computer equipped with
- Text to speech programs: JAWS and Victor
- Speech to text program: Dragon Naturally Speaking
- DAISY Reader
- Headset
- Also runs XP SP2 operating system, Microsoft Office Suite, Media Player 10 and Adobe Reader.
- New! Text to speech reader
Computer Access Lab - First Floor: Room 101A
All workstations in the Computer Access Lab are equipped with the following assistive software:
- Kurzweil 3000
- JAWS
- Magic
- Dolphin Easy Reader
- Dragon Naturally Speaking: SPACE station #3 only
The following workstations in the Computer Access Lab are equipped with the assistive hardware:
- Workstation #2: 20-inch monitor
- Workstation #6: Keys-U-See Keyboard, 20-inch monitor
- Workstation #37: 20-inch monitor
- Workstation #51: Height adjustable table, 20-inch monitor, SARA, Trackball, Braille keyboard, and PACMate
- Workstation #60: 20-inch monitor
- Workstation #64: Height adjustable table, Keys-U-See Keyboard, 20-inch monitor
- Workstation #65: Height adjustable table
- SPACE #3: 20-inch monitor
- PACMate may also be used on any Dell workstation in this lab
Classroom - First Floor: 6-118
Each classroom workstation contains Kurzweil 3000, JAWS, Magic, and Dolphin Easy reader. Workstation #19 has a 20 inch monitor.
Research Computers - Second Floor: 6-201
Two workstations: LRC 39 and LRC 54 are equipped with the following assistive software and hardware:
- Kurzweil 3000
- JAWS
- 21-inch monitor
- Trackball on LRC 39
- Keys-U-See Keyboard on LRC 39
Two additional workstations: LRC 13 and LRC 25 are equipped with Kurzweil 3000 and Easy Reader. A fifth workstation: LRC 06 is equipped with Kurzweil 3000 only.
Classrooms - Second Floor: 6-220 and 6-221
Each classroom contains one station equipped with Kurzweil 3000, Dragon Naturally Speaking, JAWS, a trackball and a 21 inch monitor.
Classroom 6-220 also contains a second workstation equipped with Kurzweil 3000 and JAWS.
Text Magnification
CCTV is located on the Second floor (6-201) to the left of the Honors Resource Center.
Winter Park
Computer Workstations & Assistive Technology
All workstations in Library are equipped with the following assistive software:
- Kurzweil 3000
- JAWS
- Magic
- Dolphin Easy Reader
- ClaroRead
- Math player
CCTV is located in the Quiet/Group Study room.
One wheelchair accessible station, with adjustable height table, Keys-U-See Keyboard, and dual monitors.
One Kurzweil Reader is located in the Quiet/Group Study room.