- No Daily Show or Colbert on #comedycentral. Website shows no info for the whole week. Odd.
- "E-Book Reader Accessibility and Comparison Matrix" #a11y http://t.co/OHlBW376
- "Image Description Tool to Improve Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities" #a11y http://t.co/1lK3jxyn
- "Katie Beckett Leaves Legacy For Kids With Disabilities" http://t.co/kd5QoEC1
- "Welcome to new Captioning Advocacy Project!" #captionTHIS #a11y http://t.co/6PvY8qeu
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Tag Archives: publishing
Quick tips about text readability
The following brief set of tips was recently published in the WebAIM Newsletter. I thought they were very useful and hopefully posting them here will help them find a wider audience. See more information about text/typographical layout issues and accessibility … Continue reading
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Tagged Accessibility, publishing, reading, technology, universal design
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No more bricks and mortar
About 15 years ago, I was invited to participate in a strategic planning process at a prominent university located in southern Maine. I had recently been hired to oversee their new distance learning masters in Education program and had volunteered … Continue reading
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Tagged education, HIGHER ED, publishing, reading, schools
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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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On Digital Textbooks
I’ve been working on the topic of digital instructional materials (specifically accessible instructional materials) for several years and in that time I have learned a great deal about how instructional materials are selected and acquired by schools around the country. … Continue reading
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Tagged e-book, e-books, education, publishing, universal design
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Writing ALT Descriptions
Several months ago I was searching for resources on how to write a decent – “good” – Alternative Description, also known as an “ALT description.” The use of the ALT description has been around for a number of years and … Continue reading
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Tagged Accessibility, ALT, blind, description, MS Office, pdf, publishing, web design
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