Accessibility of Short URLs Excerpted from the December 16th blog post on the DigitalGov blog. Although written for social media experts in government, this is good information for anyone sharing information via social media. Short URLs can actually be beneficial for people using assistive technologies because it shortens the reading time and the cognitive load that […]
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Landmark roles Difficulty: Advanced Category: Structure Adding landmark roles to your page is an easy way to enhance accessibility. Landmark roles are part of ARIA, a new accessibility specification. Landmark roles define significant web page areas and provide the user quick access to them. The available landmark roles are application, banner, complementary, contentinfo, form, main, […]
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Identifying Objects with TapTapsee Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP TapTapSee is a handy app which identifies objects via the iPhone camera. It’s simple. Start the app, wait for the auto-focus sound to let you know a picture is ready and then click that “Take Picture” button. After a short time, a brief […]
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Get the Picture! Viewing the World through the iPhone Camera, by Judy Dixon Available in Braille, BRF, Word, or DAISY, $15.00 The camera on an iPhone or iPad does a great deal more than take photos! Just ask Judy Dixon, who not only takes panoramic photos of her new patio, but also clicks the shutter […]
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We live in a hopeful era. Customized synthetic voices, a harness to help children with disabilities walk, and so much more. Grab your coffee, settle into your comfy chair and catch up on some of the coolest AT news this week. AT in the news for the week of 3/24 thru 3/28 Have you seen […]
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Universal Access to Mobile Web Browsing through Treeview Adaptation The researchers of the Department of Information Systems at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) are conducting a research study funded by National Science Foundation on how to improve Web content browsing on mobile phones both for blind and sighted participants. This study has already been […]
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