- 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: schools
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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DOE-OCR gives additional guidance on ADA, Sect 504
From AlphaOne News: Congress awarded students with disabilities extra protections in recent years. Now, the U.S. Department of Education is stepping up its efforts to ensure that schools are following the new rules. In a letter sent this week to … Continue reading
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Tagged Accessibility, ADA, education, legal, schools, Section 504
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Apps for Kids with Autism
This item also published on Maine CITE News. The New York Times (NYT) recently published an article about the use of “apps” for children with pervasive developmental disorders like autism. They note: Anecdotally, teachers, parents and therapists describe the profound … Continue reading
Posted in education, General Information
Tagged Apple, apps, autism, children, disabilities, education, schools
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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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