Converting Printed Text to Digital Text: Optical Character Recognition In the Office and On the Go June 23, 8:00-10:00 a.m. Optical character recognition (OCR) has been around since the seventies, but it has only recently started to resemble the convenient, no-holds-barred conversion from a slice-of-tree page to a digital file that makes it live up […]
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Deque University courses now available for free to all persons with disabilities! If you are considering a career in the field of digital accessibility this is your chance to get access to courses that will put you on the path for success! Deque University online courses in digital accessibility will be available to people with […]
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Google has recently launched a number of new accessibility features for Chrome OS, Android, and several of its web apps. Here’s a quick run down of the newest features, or you can visit the Google blog post to get the full scoop! Accessibility Scanner is a new tool for Android that lets developers test their own […]
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The Future of Closed Captioning in Higher Education Free Webinar: Thursday, May 12th at 2pm ET Webinar Registration The Future of Closed Captioning in Higher Education With recent lawsuits, evolving legal requirements, and continuous advancements in technology, the question of closed captioning in higher education is one that is on a lot of people’s minds. […]
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Automatic alternative text, or automatic alt text, is a new feature that generates a description of a photo through object recognition technology for someone who cannot see the photo. Previously, people who are visually impaired could only hear the name of the person who posted the photo as they scrolled past photos on Facebook. Now, […]
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Upcoming Free Accessibility Training Boutiques Digital Books – Reading and Writing Accessible Books April 25, 3:00-5:00 PM National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute EPUB is rapidly displacing PDF as the preferred non-proprietary format for digital books, but there are many formats available. This boutique will go over the different ways blind consumers can read […]
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