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Category Archives: Software
Research Review – Google Apps for Education and Accessibility
Google Apps for Education (GAFE) are a series of free, on-line applications that provide a host of office suite applications along with an e-mail system and web development tools to academic users. The use of the service is free for … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, education, General Information, Software
Tagged Accessibility, education, Google, HIGHER ED, legal, schools, Section 508, visual impairment
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Testing students with low vision
Increasingly in American schools, district assessment leaders are utilizing Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) as the methodology to assess student learning as required under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). In CAT, the test is administered by computer … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, education, General Information, Hardware, News, Software
Tagged Accessibility, assessment, blind, education, schools, technology, visual impairment
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New Captioning Video Resources
Just wanted to call your attention to a new resource we have been developing on the Maine CITE website. Called “Captioning Video,” this resource contains information about the need for and the way to caption videos on your websites or … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, education, General Information, News, Software, universal design
Tagged Accessibility, captioning, education, legal, technology, universal design
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Accessible Social Networking
Recently a colleague asked me to comment on the accessibility of Facebook and Twitter. The concern was whether state government should be embracing social networking as a means of outreach to the citizenry. My response was well thought out but … Continue reading
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Tagged Accessibility, blind, Facebook, government, twitter
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Just a second, Mr. G.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the announcement from Google that they had markedly improved the accessibility of various free apps they deliver to the public. In a article from the E-Access Bulletin of October, Brian Gaff, an accessibility … Continue reading
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Tagged Accessibility, Google, legal, publishing, visual impairment
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