<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Holly,<br><br></div>I'm generally supportive of using the most current STABLE operating system for testing...as long as it allows all students to access all aspects of the testing system, without requiring extraordinary efforts on the part of the teacher, tech staff, STC or DTC.<br><br></div>To be clear, we don't test on MACs, so my opinion is less important than that of some of my colleagues. However it seems essential to allow ASL access, so a district would need to reserve a batch of computers to NOT upgrade...which may or may not be possible/practical.<br><br></div>Is there any likelihood that a solution will be found prior to testing? If so....maybe give provisional support with a hard deadline for a final decision (Jan 1?) If not, then I vote to not support it.<br><br></div>Bill<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 9:02 AM, LEDOUX Renee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:renee.ledoux@state.or.us" target="_blank">renee.ledoux@state.or.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Apple released Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan on September 30<font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt"><sup>th</sup></span></font>, and AIR has finished its internal testing and confirmed that everything is compatible with the current Mac secure browser
except for the ASL accommodation for the Smarter Balanced ELA test. Given that Mac OS X 10.11 was released after the official support date for 2015-16, AIR is currently blocking users from accessing Oregon tests on a computer that is running Mac OS X 10.11.
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<div>ODE now seeks your recommendation whether to support testing on Mac OS X 10.11, with a caveat that this operating system is not compatible with the ASL accommodation. So that we can finalize our decision and communicate to the field, we request that you
please provide input to Renée LeDoux (<a href="mailto:renee.ledoux@state.or.us" target="_blank"><font color="blue"><u>renee.ledoux@state.or.us</u></font></a>) by noon on <b>Monday, October 2</b><b>6</b><font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font>.
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<div>Thank you for your consideration,</div>
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