The Veterans Administration Center for Innovation launched the Innovation Creation Series Prosthetics and Assistive Technology Challenge to facilitate development of personalized technologies to improve care and quality of life for veterans. Designers, engineers, and other problem-solvers may submit initial design solutions for several challenges: prosthetic device and controller development, accessible gaming controls, medication adherence technology, […]
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Camp CreATe – Create, Reuse, and Explore Assistive Technology – A Week-Long, Hands-On Experience Description: Assistive Technology in New Hampshire (ATinNH) presents Camp CreATe, a week-long, hands-on experience making, taking, and exploring Assistive Technology for home, school, work, and play. Whether you join us for a single day or all five, it is sure to […]
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The big news, as if you haven’t heard, is that Google is giving out $20 million in grants to nonprofits for ideas that can help address physical impairments among the world’s population. And if that isn’t enough to satisfy your AT appetite, there’s tons more below! AT in the news for the weeks of 5/18 […]
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day On Thursday, May 21, MDTAP participated in Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Around the world, events, both large and small, were held to raise awareness of Web Accessibility. Countless links and articles have been written as a result of GAAD2015. The best jumping off point may be: www.baltimoregaad.org. The administrators say to […]
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The ADA National Network in collaboration with the Accessibility Program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Center on Accessibility at Indiana University is pleased to announce the 2nd and 3rd sessions (2 Part Series) in the 2015 Arts and Recreation Webinar Series. 1st Webinar Session May 28, […]
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HTML5 Structural Elements and ARIA HTML5 introduces several new structural elements that will be very beneficial for accessibility: <nav> (for identifying navigational elements), <header> (a group of introductory or navigational aids), <article>, <aside> (tangentially related content, such as a sidebar), and <footer> provide meaning to major page structural areas. These can also be used to […]
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