Archive for “January, 2005”

On this page the following entries were made in the “January, 2005” time-frame.


Blind engineering student ‘reads’ color-scaled weather maps using Cornell software that converts color into sound

Posted January 27th, 2005 by Christopher Phillips

Seems like a really good idea. Makes me wonder if you could use a simular concept on size-scaled graphs and charts.

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Accessible Online Slide Presentation Tool

Posted January 25th, 2005 by Christopher Phillips

Or perhaps better stated by the author of the tool, A Simple Standards-Based Semantic Slide Show System or S5. In Eric’s own words:
With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible… […]

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Housecleaning and New Blogger

Posted January 25th, 2005 by Christopher Phillips

Curb Cut Learning would like to welcome the new Coordinator of Distance Education at the Institute for Community Inclusion, Alvaro Tobar. Alvaro comes to us from Boston University and has some great distance education experience.
Along with the redesign, I also changed how comments are accepted on the site. We have been using the excellent MT-Blacklist […]

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Bowser toolbars redux

Posted January 19th, 2005 by Jeff Coburn

Web Developer Extension
Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla
Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator Extension
Sharkware, JAWS Screen Reader Adaptation for Mozilla Firefox

All of these are for Firefox, of course. Go nuts with these and let us all know what works and what doesn’t.

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Looking good, feeling good

Posted January 17th, 2005 by Jeff Coburn

Many thanks to Christopher Phillips for giving Curb Cut a nice new look and feel. It looks great and I’ve never liked gill-sans more. Curb Cut’s new years resolution is to post even more than it did last year. It would also like to shed a few inches around the waist-line. Or maybe that is […]

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PDFs Redux

Posted January 11th, 2005 by Christopher Phillips

article from earlier this year on accessible pdf.

adobe just announced acrobat 7.0 with “advanced accessibility features”– see bottom of page 2 here. interesting stuff on canada’s accessibility requirements.

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