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Quick Catch Up on Links
A few links that I would like to unload off of my docket:
Learning with a Disability PhD Program
“…a doctoral program designed to provide a broad and comprehensive education, realistic work experiences, and opportunities for problem centered research in the area of learning with disability.”
IBM Strives For Superhuman Speech Tech
” ‘At IBM, we have this superhuman […]
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Curb Cut, Take 3
The past few years I have been working in the area of religious special education and have recently jumped back into a job where Curb Cut is relevant to my work again. A couple of feeble attempts to start posting again in the past quite awhile have led to a blistering pace of one to […]
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How to Build an Accessible Curb Cut
Because this site gets a number of hits on accessibility specifications of actual curb cuts, I thought I would post a couple of resources for misguided visitors. Specifically I’ll outline the little that I’ve been able to find out about curb cuts and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Definition
First off a definition from the Wikipedia […]
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Curb Cut Lives!
Hello everyone, after a long hiatus Curb Cut is back in action. Even though I work in a different field now (religious education for youth with disabilities), I haven’t been able to stay away from this stuff and am anxious to get a few posts out there.
Also, I have changed the rss feed to point […]
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Housecleaning and New Blogger
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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Looking good, feeling good
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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UK struggles with same problems as U.S.
Not really surprising, but still a good read. Web inaccessibility ‘creates net underclass.’
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New Beginings
Hi friends, welcome back to Curb Cut. I’d like to thank Christopher for all the wonderful work he has done on this site and wish him the best of luck as he moves onward and upward. That said, he still has his login to the site, and we hope he will post as often as […]
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Future Curb Cut Posts
I’m still around and thought I would do a dump of all the links I had in my bookmarks folder that were intended for future publication on curbcut. Here they are are semi-organized, unfiltered and uncommented upon, straight from my bookmarks.html file. There are some gems in here, but you may have to dig to […]
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The Future of Curb Cut… (and anyone looking for a job?)
You’ve likely noticed there hasn’t been much happening around here lately, here’s why. I recently accepted a position working in the area of spirituality and disability- instead of focusing on accessible distance education, I’m turning my focus to accessible religion. If any of your are interested in the topic, let me know, but be […]
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