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Accessibility

RESEARCH

Disability and the Digital Divide

Computer and Internet Use by People with Disabilities

A presentation by Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D. director of the Trace Research and Development Center. Available in RealAudio and includes Power Point slide of the presentation and a written transcript
http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/ltde/access/gregg_van.htm

Demonstrations on the web:

Visual Impairments
Introduction to a Screen Reader

-See a user who is blind demonstrate how he uses a screen reader to read the web. This is an accessible format for persons who are deaf, it is closed captioned with a text transcription link.
http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/ltde/access/ewers.htm
Quicktime movie

National Center for Accessible Media
http://ncam.wgbh.org/

Showcase of rich media examples

Inspiration - Concept mapping software
Two Views available:

diagram

outlines

Accessible web cast (transcript for user who is deaf, audio for user who is blind)
http://www.easi.cc/media/paciello.htm

And Finally
Just to give you an example how international the idea of web accessibility is, meet one of the members of the Web Accessibility Initiative Group.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/about.html

He is one of many who are working on behalf of access for a more inclusive web. His work on authoring tools guidelines makes it possible for people like me to have accessible tools to train you!
Meet him now http://www.w3.org/People/Charles/

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