Glass began in a community-college classroom. Like most instructors at most community colleges, its builder had no instructional designer, no captioning service, and no accessibility staff — just courses full of lecture video, slide decks, readings, and images, and scanner reports listing hundreds of findings that were nobody's job to fix.
The findings weren't moral failures. They were the residue of instructors doing course construction without course-construction staff: pasted markup, screenshots as readings, auto-generated captions nobody verified, image descriptions that were really just filenames. The scanners could see all of it. None of them would do anything about it.
So Glass is built to be the instructional designer the college never hired: it finds what the scanners find — and then drafts the repair, shows its evidence, and waits for the instructor to say yes.
Conservation glazing — museum glass — protects a work and makes it clearly visible to everyone, without touching the work itself. Invisible when done right. That's the standard this project holds itself to: your course, unaltered except where you said yes, readable by every student who shows up.
Glass is built by Ben Wilbur, an adjunct instructor in Human Services at San Bernardino Valley College, where its pilots run on his own courses first. Contact: [email protected]