Accessibility, Compliance, and Discrimination Accessibility is about the user experience. Because a web site can always be more accessible, accessibility is best viewed as being a continuum. Web accessibility guidelines and standards (such as Section 508 and WCAG) provide useful measures along that continuum. Discrimination laws (such as the Americans with Disabilities Act or Section […]
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Check out our newest video, Digit-Eyes App Review. A barcode scanner, a QR code maker, and customized label maker with Voiceover. This app does a lot! Check out some its basic features and how to use it, right here on the MDTAP YouTube channel.
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Make yourself comfortable because this is two weeks worth of AT News (and not all of it even!)…We’ve got stylized emergency alert necklaces, some 3D printed body parts, some cool Google Glass stuff going on, a braille phone, and way more. And remember, you can read all the latest news at MDTAP’s twitter account, @MDTAP. […]
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Contributed by Lori Markland, Director of Communications, Outreach and Program Development, MDTAP Confession – I love PDFs and I can not lie. I like taking a document and saving it as a PDF. I like the way it looks on the screen. And given the choice between reading a Word doc or a PDF, I’ll […]
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Low Vision Custom Color Settings Some users with low vision can see content more easily if the default colors are inverted (white text on a black background), customized user styles are applied (blue text on a yellow background, for example), or a custom color scheme is used. This can be done using the operating system, […]
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It’s official, we’re making short “get to know AT” videos. Check out these how-to’s and what’s-this AT videos and learn a little more about how things work and why they’re helpful. This week, we’ve got a great quick review of the LookTel Money Reader app for the iPhone. Take 3 minutes and check it out on the MDTAP YouTube channel!
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