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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The M-Enabling Global Summit is the only program exclusively dedicated to promoting mobile accessible and assistive applications and services for senior citizens and users of all abilities, a market of more than one billion users worldwide, with considerable untapped potential. This year’s M-Enabling conference and showcase will be held June 9-10 in Washington, DC. The agenda […]
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http://HCBSadvocacy.org – has launched! While officially a collaborative project of the DD network partners – NACDD, NDRN, and AUCD – this site should prove to be a useful tool for national and state cross-disability and aging advocacy organizations. Each state includes information on their deadlines for transition plans, including waivers that expire before March 17, […]
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Grab your coffee because it’s that time of week again…AT in the news for the week of 11/18 thru 11/22 Fantastical an iPhone Calendar App Makes Staying Organized Easy All-terrain wheelchair re-opens outdoors to disabled hunters 98-year-old man returns to his art after 15 years blind, with Microsoft Paint FCC Seeks Comment on Accessibility Policies […]
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Maryland Health Connection is Maryland’s new health insurance marketplace where individuals and families can go to shop, compare and select a health plan that best meets their needs. With one application, you can find out if you are eligible for financial assistance (tax credits) to help pay for insurance premiums for private insurance, or see […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP The World Intellectual Property Organization is considering a treaty which will make books more accessible to the blind. We think this is great news and would like to show our support for the treaty by signing a petition at whitehouse.gov: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/side-blind-over-obstructionist-companies-secure-treaty-blind-makes-books-accessible-globally/ZJtgcVph The below is an excerpt from […]
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