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Monthly Archive for April, 2012

Equipment Connections for Children presents a: Trike-A-Thon! A Fun Event for Kids With & Without Disabilities: A non-competitive time for kids with adaptive bikes and typical bikes to ride and have fun together.   Saturday, April 28, 2012  from 11am – 2pm Germantown Community Center 18905 Kingsview Rd, Germantown, MD 20874 Fee: Minimum Donation of […]

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V-LINC’s What I Wish for My Child is an annual campaign designed to help realize the dreams of children with disabilities in Central Maryland. Families of these children know how difficult it can be when their sons or daughters cannot participate in the activities that other children can. Each spring, V-LINC takes requests from parents […]

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AT in the news for the week of 4/9 – 4/13 BBC News – London 2012: Travelling Paralympic exhibition opens Movie Theater To Adjust For Deaf, Blind Patrons Disabled Brit gets smartphone dock built into his prosthetic arm Delhi University student develops app to aid deaf, blind in texting Advancing Health and Robotics – U.S. […]

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Do you know where to go to find out about accessibility features for the latest apps for the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Mac? Well, now there’s a website for that! Applevis.com is a user-powered site focused on sharing information on the  accessibility of apps developed for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac. It’s also a place […]

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Accessibility User Testing Instead of conducting accessibility testing with users with disabilities (asking users to identify accessibility issues), it is almost always more effective to do usability testing (asking users to evaluate overall usability) with users with disabilities. While accessibility testing can be used to identify instances of accessibility – poor alt text here and […]

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New Features of Bookshare.org Review by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP If you are a regular user of the Bookshare.org website, you may have noticed another download option which has recently been added. Download in MP3 Audio (Beta) now appears at the bottom of every book listing.  Rather than receiving a file containing the text of […]

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