Accessibility

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• Private Enterprise, Moores Law & Accessibility Innovation Are …

  
  Today's Review — Authority: 170
  The disabled have much to give thanks for this year—but contrary to common assumptions, it’s not for paternalistic government accessibility mandates, regulations or subsidies (see, for example, the FCC’s November 6 Broadband … Continue reading from the original source: Private Enterprise, Moores Law & ...
  10 hours ago

• Private Enterprise, Moore’s Law & Accessibility Innovation Are Empowering the Disabled

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 545
  The disabled have much to give thanks for this year—but contrary to common assumptions, it’s not for paternalistic government accessibility mandates, regulations or subsidies (see, for example, the FCC’s November 6 Broadband Accessibility workshop), but for the good ol’ fashioned private sector ingenuity ...
  12 hours ago

• Differentiating Deliciously

  
  Education On The Plate — Authority: 407
  Image via Wikipedia No, I’m not talking about the social bookmarking site . I’m talking about education and food. That’s what this blog is supposed to be about and in a Twitter response to my last post, @ToughLoveforX remarked that high schools should have teaching kitchens. I disagree. All schools ...
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• Chevy Volt Aims to Help the Blind

  
  Gear Diary — Authority: 690
  Click here to view the embedded video. I bought a Prius over the summer. Halfway through the test drive my fiancee asked the salesman if he was aware that electric cars have caused issues for blind pedestrians , since they don’t hear the cars coming. His response (after an awkward silence where he no doubt ...
  1 day ago

• UN Regional Forum Recommends Ways To Promote Accessibility For Persons With Disabilities

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 147
    UN Regional Forum Recommends Ways To Promote Accessibility For Persons With Disabilities
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• NOVA Concept DSLR, For the Gamer/Photographer [Design]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
      I’m not much of a photographer, but I do love me some video games. Maybe this game controller-esque DSLR concept would help bridge the gap between the two worlds. Read more: NOVA Concept DSLR, For the Gamer/Photographer [Design]
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• KDE Community and Apliki Cooperate on Understandable Icons

  
  KDE.news — Authority: 465
  The KDE Artist team and Apliki , a German psychological IT consultancy company, cooperate on creating easy and understandable icons for KDE software. Read on for more. read more
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• From YourLocalCinema – First Subtitled 3D Movie in UK

  
  bill creswell - captioning the internet one video at a time — Authority: 125
  27.11.09This weekend marks a milestone in UK cinema – the release of the first ever 3D movie that is accessible to people with hearing or sight loss. Disney’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ has been on release with subtitles on the 2D version and with audio description ...
  2 days ago

• Recommended Reading for November 27

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 665
  via Elizabeth Kissling at re:Cycling : Mental Illness in Academe The first question you must ask yourself is whether to tell your chair and dean. I can think of arguments both in favor of that, and against. One of the pluses would be the psychological benefits of not having a secret and being able to be open. ...
  2 days ago

• Door opening help

  
  Hack a Day — Authority: 648
  For those who are seeking prosthetic limbs, or just require a little bit of robotic gripper help, the choices are very few and very costly. A newcomer to the area is hoping to change the costly part with their door opening arm . Costing only $2,000 to build, it is quite cheap compared to the other offerings. This ...
  2 days ago

• Recommended Reading for November 26

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 665
  They hate you. Yes, you. Because the first thing people use on us is always, “It’s not about you.” When I was a kid, when I first started reading about autism rights, it was so instinctive: of course it’s wrong to say “cure autism now.” Of course it’s wrong to say autism is a tragedy, a disease, ...
  3 days ago

• Question Time: Fantasy Assistive Devices

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 665
  OK, so we’ve had the “ what assistive devices I use ” thread. Now it’s time for… In My Dreams: Assistive Devices I WANT! Stealing from meloukhia a little, I’d like a self-powered mobile bed-platform-thingo that contains all of my needs at easy reach: my laptop and all peripherals, assortment of ...
  3 days ago

• Adactio: Journal—A case study: Building a social network for disabled users

  
  Laura tumbles on the interweb — Authority: 154
  Adactio: Journal—A case study: Building a social network for disabled users
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• One pedestrian route complete, more needed

  
  UrbanReviewSTL — Authority: 130
  In early November 2005 Elizabeth “Lisi” Bansen died a few days after being struck by an SUV as she was traveling the two blocks from the nearest store to her apartment.  Lisi Bansen was disabled and using a manual wheelchair.  She was in the roadway because what sidewalks existed were impassable and curb cuts ...
  4 days ago

• Manifests for exposing the structure of a Composite Media Resource

  
  ginger's thoughts — Authority: 405
  In the previous post I explained that there is a need to expose the tracks of a time-linear media resource to the user agent (UA). Here, I want to look in more detail at different possibilities of how to do so, their advantages and disadvantages. Note: A lot of this has come out of discussions I had at the recent ...
  5 days ago

• Earlier Today I Gave A Talk In Australia

  
  UK Web Focus — Authority: 414
  This morning, as normal, I switched on my iPod Touch just after getting out of bed and downloaded tweets posted overnight. And via a tweet from Jonathan O’Donnell I discovered that during the night I had given the opening keynote talk of the day at the OZeWAI at OZCHI 2009 conference. Yes, I had given a talk at a ...
  5 days ago

• Automatic Captions in YouTube

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 429
  Video has the potential to be a very stimulating and engaging format for teaching and learning, but at the same time staff have to be aware of the accessibility implications. YouTube continues to be the main player when it comes to web hosting of video clips and with 20 hours of footage uploaded every minute there is ...
  5 days ago

• Recommended Reading for November 24

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 665
  But Accessibility is Too Expensive Due to the weather and being forced to stand, the pain was so terrible I was literally weeping silently. I walked into the office and asked to speak to someone in charge. I explained the issue and suggested that they install a platform, which would allow scooter and wheelchair ...
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• Dealing with video accessibility - automating captions and transcripts

  
  eGov AU — Authority: 510
  I found out last week that Google had recently integrated YouTube with Googles speech-text technology, allowing videos displayed on YouTube to have their captions and transcripts automatically generated. In addition, these captions and transcripts can then be translated, via Googles text translation system, and ...
  6 days ago

• Blue Beanie Day 2009: Support Web Standards

  
  oz: the blog of glenda sims ( the goodwitch) — Authority: 388
  Do you remember when you first became a web standards believer? (or do you want to know why web standards are important ?) Whether it was last week, last year or last decade, it forever changes the way you create for the web. But, when was the last time you helped someone else understand the value of web standards? ...
  6 days ago

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