10 Tips for Creating Accessible Online Course Content Free Webinar: Thursday, October 8th at 2pm ET In our media-centric society, the desire and need for online learning is at an all-time high. However, as more academic content goes online, the industry is running into a stumbling block as they struggle to make their online courses […]
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What is web accessibility? Web accessibility is the practice of not creating barriers for users with disabilities when you’re building or changing a website. You may have heard the term and not really known what it meant, or come across guidelines and regulations (e.g. section 508, WCAG 2.0) and not really known what they were […]
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Caring for Patients who are blind or visually impaired From: Armed Forces Medicine – 2015 A Fact Sheet for the Inpatient Care Team This fact sheet is intended to assist all who provide direct inpatient care to blind or visually impaired Service members or Veterans. The bullets below suggest best practices for caring for blind […]
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Section 508 Best Practices Webinar: Basic Testing Guide for Making an Accessible PDF (September 29) The next webinar in the Section 508 Best Practices Webinar Series will take place September 29 from 1:00 to 2:30 (ET) and will cover testing of Portable Document Format (PDF) files for compliance with the Section 508 Standards. Presenters will […]
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We missed sending out our weekly wrap up last week, so today you get the best of both weeks! Enjoy!!! AT in the news for the weeks 0f 9/7 through 9/18… Legislation to transform education for kids with sensory disabilities Twitter Gives ‘Voice’ To People With Speech Disabilities Manual wheelchair users sought to help design […]
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ADA Live! (WADA) is a free monthly show broadcast nationally on the Internet. Ask questions and learn about your rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It covers a wide variety of topics ranging from education to emergency evacuation to web access. Visit them online at http://www.adalive.org/schedule to find their current schedule.
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