Maryland Department of Disabilities
Posted in Emergency Preparedness, Things to Know Thursday on Feb 18th, 2015
Fire Safety Contributed by Provi Sharpe, Director of Emergency Management and Equipment Reuse, MDTAP People are at greater risk for fire in the winter season when they use unsafe heat sources. According to the National Fire Incident Reporting System, 905 people die in winter home fires each year, 67 percent of winter fires occur in […]
Posted in Information Technology, Web Accessibility, Web Tip Wednesday on Feb 18th, 2015
Empty Table Headers When marking up data tables, avoid empty table headers (<th> element). Empty headers can cause confusion for screen reader users because there is no information to be read for a data row or column, or they may cause the screen reader to associate a header to an incorrect column or row. Pay […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT Events, AT News, Information Technology, Web Accessibility, Weekly Wrap-up Friday on Feb 13th, 2015
AT news is off-the-hook this week! I kid you not – there’s a lot of it and it covers all sorts of topics, like 3-D prosthetics, hand-free smartphones, smaller & sleeker hearing aids, and much more. Check it all out right here – AT in the news for the week of 2/9 thru 2/13. 3D […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT Events, AT News, Education, Things to Know Thursday on Feb 12th, 2015
High school students with disabilities are invited to attend A College Prep Forum on February 28, 2015, 1 p.m.- 5 p.m. at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Everything you wanted to know about college but didn’t know to ask! Hear from college students and young professionals with disabilities and other experts about: •Financial […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, Information Technology, Web Accessibility, Web Tip Wednesday on Feb 11th, 2015
Mouse Hover Many interactive elements on the web require the user to hover the mouse over a page element – drop-down or fly-out menus, tooltips, etc. Mouse hover functionality is usually not accessible to keyboard-only users (note that the functionality can sometimes be programmed to respond to keyboard focus or pressing Enter in addition to […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, Blind/Low Vision Aids , Education, Tech Tip Tuesday on Feb 10th, 2015
Turning Your iPad Into a Braille Writer Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Writing Braille on an iDevice is not new. It all started back with BrailleTouch, which would copy text you had written into any app. Then there came mBraille, which expanded upon this idea with many powerful features. With iOS7 came […]
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