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Accessible Web Browsers
I have mentioned a symbol-based browser before, but here is a list of three different accessible browsers:
Free Accessible Web Browsers for Learners with Multiple Disabilities
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Accessible Pen and Paper?
I first heard of Livescribe from an announcement of their upcoming ’smartpen’ and noted that a former professor, Andy Van Schaack, PhD was involved in the project. A few weeks ago, I was able to attend a presentation from Dr. Van Schaack and learned a little more about the project. I was especially interested in […]
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Icons, Symbols and Cognitive Disabilities
Guideline 1.3 Create content that can be presented in different ways (for example spoken aloud, simpler layout, etc.) without losing information or structure
Draft Guideline 1.3 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 discusses the importance of making information available in a form that can be perceived by the user- either directly or through an […]
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Does your mail client support email standards?
Email Standards Project
The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.
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Tactile Video Displays
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has licensed a technology for the commercialization of a tactile graphic display device. The device promises users who are blind the ability to feel images from any number of sources on a refreshable braille display. The technology has been in development for awhile, but commercialization is a significant […]
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Using Symbols to Access the Web
From the AT TechNET @ VCU: Assistive Technology Blog, a link to Communicate: Webwide, the first symbol-supported web browser. Everything happens in the browser where you can view pages in normal view, with plain text or using symbols. Their icon library contains over 29,000 words. It also reads any text that you highlight.
Is this type […]
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Text to Speech Software and Voices
I’m trying understand a little more about Text to Speech technologies, and and came across a couple of helpful links: a Speech synthesis page from Wikipedia and a Text-to-Speech page at SNOW. It appears there are a number of different text to speech software packages available.
The issue seems to be further complicated in that at […]
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Evaluating Websites for Accessibility with Firefox
From the intro to the article:
Patrick H. Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review
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Speakwire - Online RSS Reader
Done by the same folks who are behind Speegle, the talking search engine, Speakwire is a free online tool that reads aloud a rss feed. From their press release:
Most people associate computer speech with visually impaired users. I think that is missing the point and we set out to demonstrate just how universal speech is. […]
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Accessible Online Slide Presentation Tool
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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