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Posted in Assistive Technology, AT Events, AT News, Information Technology, Web Accessibility, Weekly Wrap-up Friday on Jan 9th, 2015
There were some holidays happening the past few weeks, causing us to miss a couple of our Friday news wrap-ups. But we’re back and brining you the coolest technology news of the week, like we do. AT in the news for the week on 1/5 thru 1/9. Beyond alt-text: a wave of new senior corporate positions […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, Information Technology, Web Accessibility, Web Tip Wednesday on Jan 7th, 2015
Server-side Image Maps Server-side image maps (typically an <img> with the ismap attribute) allows x and y coordinates of where a user clicks the image with a mouse to be sent to a server for processing. For example, for a state map, the x and y coordinates of where the user clicks could be analyzed […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT News, Information Technology, Tech Tip Tuesday on Jan 6th, 2015
We’ve been updating our online apps directory with a whole lot of new apps. Visit Apps, Apps and more Apps!, where you can find a collection of apps categorized for a variety of disabilities along with brief descriptions, prices, and links.
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT News, Education, Information Technology, Mystery Monday, Web Accessibility on Jan 5th, 2015
Project: Possibility is a software collaboration for people with disabilities. The goal is to create and support innovative software projects that are empowering for the software developers that implement them and for the persons with disabilities that use them. This vision involves both innovating completely new software projects and contributing to and collaborating with existing open-source […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT News, Information Technology, Tech Tip Tuesday on Dec 30th, 2014
The Golden Apples of 2014 Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Once upon a time, I wrote a blog post about the excellent resource, AppleVis.com. It is devoted to iOS apps and Mac applications from a blind perspective. This is a huge job, and the staff, along with an active user community, keep […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, Blind/Low Vision Aids , Information Technology, Tech Tip Tuesday on Dec 23rd, 2014
The Vario Ultra Has Landed Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Just in time for the holidays, the initial orders of the Baum Vario Ultra are arriving on our shores. Several months ago, I mentioned this portable Braille display after seeing a demo version of the unit. The Vario Ultra is one of […]
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