A device is under development that combines a scanner and labeller with voice output, radio, mp3 player, talking clock, voice recorder and audio book player, for the first time in a single unit.
For those wishing to peer at the spectacle of the great and the good in the world of coding accessibility having a row about personalities and group dynamics – and the future of standards – a read of Molly Holzschalg’s blog at the moment will prove extremely enlightening.
I’m off to ICC 2007 next week to run a couple of workshops and run a camp Blog, see my post to this effect over at my Blog and please follow the camp blog and comment too to let the students know you're out there.
The Web samurai have posted their Errata to the W3Cs web content accessibility guidelines version 2.0 draft. see comments links and reviews from here.
The appeal by PMI reported here in the posting E-Learning Company Appeals Against Inaccessibility Ruling.we have case law.
Nice to see one or two reports of this event which we ran for 70 industry representatives making it into the Bloggosphere. You can get the guides for yourself in pdf, Word, or hardcopy (for free from our Website just search for Making software accessible, a guide for Schools, or Making accessible software, a guide for developers and providers. You can access the supplementary rresources which accompany the guides as follows:
Making software accessible a guide for Schools, resources, select the ‘accessibility and access to learning’ link.
and the Making accessible software, a guide for developers and providers resources. tell all your friends.
Have just read this post on the hotels.com case and comment on what might constitute a reasonable adjustment when a company offers both a highstreet and online service. The message that lawyers are shying away from bringing Web access cases under the ADA is worrying.
Whether you think Web 2.0 is just marketing hyper-spin, or whether you believe it’s the latest web based revolution, one thing’s for sure: It’s having one hell of an effect on accessibility. The big question though, is whether we learnt our lesson with Web 1.0.
During May and June the DRC website will be piloting use of WordBank the innovative multimedia definitions library. WordBank definitions include Text, images and video animations to illustrate the meaning of complex words and are of particular value to those experiencing a learning disability. See the announcement of the DRC trial, more about WordBank and Links to some Sample definitions at http://www.word-bank.com/drc/
If you live in the UK, you now have access to a dictionary of 5,000 words in British Sign Language (BSL) and their accompanying downloadable videos for your cellphones.
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