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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “accessibility”

• What is Online Knowledge? How can OpenCalais help create better Online Knowledge?

  
  Beaconfire Wire — Authority: 108
  Much has changed since humanity acknowledged the word knowledge and started to classify the various subject matters into categories and taxonomies of learned disciplines. The definition of knowledge is outside the scope of this article because of simple reasons. I am not as qualified as the university professors, or ...
  14 hours ago

• Weekly News Round-Up, 11/8

  
  Women's Health News — Authority: 108
  Christine has a post at Our Bodies Our Blog about the passage of the health reform legislation last night. She notes As I watched Democrats congratulate themselves, it was difficult to feel celebratory. Passage of the Stupak amendment — which bars a government-run insurance plan from offering abortion *and* ...
  14 hours ago

• Defining “Public Accommodation” in Virtual Worlds

  
  AniktoBlog — Authority: 406
  Regular readers of this blog, as well as those who have heard me speak within the past year or so, are already familiar with some of the themes discussed regarding virtual worlds and accessibility . Two stories arose this weekend that could potentially add fuel to the discussion. Although wholly separate, the two ...
  15 hours ago

• 18th Down Under Feminists’ Carnival!

  
  Wallaby — Authority: 459
  Apologies for the lack of DUFC logo – for some reason, I stick in the image and link, hit “update” – and WordPress disappears the whole thing! Welcome to the 18th Down Under Feminists’ Carnival! (And apologies for the delay.) This Carnival has an optional caring theme, thanks to Australian Carers’ ...
  1 day ago

• In which homework is assigned

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  This post was originally published at Zero at the Bone in August 2009. In it I ask the abled folk among us to think beyond the (very important!) need for systemic inclusion of disabled people, to what they can do as individuals. I’m going to talk about accessibility. I want you to have a think. Then I want you ...
  1 day ago

• Bild.de Blocks iPhone

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 141
  Springer blocks Bild.de via the iPhone browser , leaves access via its Bild-app only; http://j.mp/8QPVi
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• Found/interesting: 15 October to 7 November

  
  Mission Creep | Neil Williams — Authority: 451
  Look what I found interesting enough to bookmark recently: BBC Democracy Live – Nifty live political TV and news thingummy via Simon Dickson. JobFact – community of anonymous employees – Compare your salary anonymously. Optimal Workshop – online card sorting tool – Fantastic and free online IA ...
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• A Patient’s Guide to Lithium

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  I’ve been thinking lately about the blurred and perhaps ultimately nonexistent line between physical and mental disabilities. And how difficult it can be from the outside to understand why a certain accommodation is needed or a person could require physical accommodations for mental disabilities. And how sometimes ...
  1 day ago

• Useful Links: Geek of the Week, accessible video, Glamour

  
  Web Teacher — Authority: 419
  Geek of the Week is a feature on The Big Blog from Seattle PI Blogs. Interesting geeks profiled thus far include Wendy Chisholm, Kathy Gill, Doug Ireton, Rachel Strawn, Brian Dorsey, Natala Menezes, Jenny Lam, Marty Stepp and more. Each geek gets the same set of questions to answer. Fascinating. Make video ...
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• Recommended Reading for November 6

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  Missing in Causation Talk: Actual Austistics : Today I listened in a bit to the IACC conference call on “risks and prevention.” I ended up not listening to the entire thing, partly because I’m quite busy, and partly because the conference call format just does not work very well for me in terms of processing ...
  2 days ago

• Make video accessible, localised, mobile and searchable by captioning

  
  iheni :: making the web worldwide — Authority: 473
  I had my first foray into captioning this week for a short video that a colleague Daniel Davis ( @ourmaninjapan ) did on remote debugging with Opera Dragonfly and Opera Mobile 10 to mark the release of Opera Mobile 10 Beta (go try it, it’s free). I’m slightly pink faced to say I’ve not done any captioning ...
  2 days ago

• Affiliate Internet Marketing Program

  
  Stompernet SEO Course — Authority: 163
  Affiliate Internet marketing programs are designed and developed by either the affiliate networks or by the merchant. Every affiliate program shares some common features like commission payouts, frequency of payouts, affiliate models, mode of payment and accessibility to the publishers and advertisers.
  3 days ago

• Mental Health Coverage Makes Economic Sense

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 645
  There are a lot of reasons to support health care reform and the inclusion of mental health treatment in that reform. I personally support it because I think health care (including mental health care) should be a basic human right of every human being and believe our government has a moral and humanitarian obligation ...
  3 days ago

• Volunteers are not protected by the Disability Discrimination Act

  
  Yorkshire and Humber ICT Champion — Authority: 133
  Volunteers are not protected by the Disability Discrimination Act as they are not covered by the term “occupation”, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled..In a case that will have implications for all charities that deploy volunteers, the Tribunal last week handed down a decision regarding the employment status ...
  3 days ago

• L.A. Public Library suspends purchase of Adobe Digital Edition e-books

  
  The CITE — Authority: 128
  The Los Angeles Public Library system announced that it has suspended the purchase of Adobe Digital Editions e-books because the books are not currently accessible to the blind or those with print disabilities. According to an article from the Library Journal, the books were accessible when they were purchased from ...
  3 days ago

• Follow-up: Foreign language materials about Student Assignment Plan are available

  
  Beacon Hill Blog — Authority: 475
  (Ed. note — This is a follow-up post to last Saturday’s “ Opinion: School assignment plan lost in translation .”) by Flo Beaumon After my article was posted on the Beacon Hill Blog, I heard that a fellow Beacon Hill International School parent had seen translated materials about the Student Assignment ...
  3 days ago

• Web design and SEO- must for business

  
  I Work On The Net — Authority: 130
  Your company’s website is the most important tool with your institute for the internet marketing. You website represents your company in the most apposite manner, over the internet. The name of your company could be easily popularized with the help of your website. You can also attract more and more visitors to make ...
  4 days ago

• Guardian makes its comments accessible, SEO friendly and mobile friendly all in one go!

  
  malcolm coles — Authority: 584
  The Guardian has changed its user-generated comment system - moving from a client-side system to a server-side one. With the old system, once you clicked to read a story, the web page would download, and some javascript would run. This would go off and look up readers comments and display them. This wasnt terribly ...
  4 days ago

• Accessibility Watch: The Kindness of Strangers

  
  Metropolis POV — Authority: 584
  . I use forearm crutches and I find it a bit tricky to open doors coming in from the street. Over the years, I have been gratified by the number of pedestrians who swoop in front of me and open the door; once I’m inside they scoot off on their journey, always at a very rapid pace. Who says New Yorkers are not ...
  4 days ago

• New accessibility overview on the W3C website

  
  456 Berea Street — Authority: 518
  The new W3C website has a new and very good summary of the why, what, and how of Web accessibility. Read full post Posted in Accessibility , Web Standards .
  5 days ago

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