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Monthly Archive for May, 2015

Contributed by Jim McCarthy, Executive Director, MDTAP Here in Maryland, I’ve found myself recently thinking about access to technology and information for state workers as the state moves to a new IT platform. Maryland’s Division of Information Technology, DoIT, is leading a move of state agencies to Google Apps. A recent meet up of state agencies and […]

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It’s all about the feels this week. Like, you can feel your heart explode while watching a video of a pregnant, blind mom-to-be when she gets a 3D sonogram of her son, or you can feel your mind bending when holograms of people with disabilities appear when you park in a handicapped space…so go for […]

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Contributed by Jim McCarthy, Executive Director, MDTAP Recently, MDTAP received our long awaited VarioUltra 20 cell refreshable braille display among the newest additions to our demonstration and loan library. I promptly took control of it to learn how it works so I’ll share some thoughts about it now. The Vario Ultra comes in 20 and […]

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ARIA Application Role ARIA role=”application” can be used to identify web applications or widgets within a page. When a screen reader is within an element with this role, it functions in forms mode, meaning that when keyboard keys are pressed, they are passed to the web page rather than handled by the screen reader itself. […]

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Stands I Have Known—Revisited Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP As hinted in the last post, I finally got my hands on the Fopydo stand. It set me back a whole $15 direct from the manufacturer. There may be less expensive stands available, but let’s call this the low end of the scanning […]

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The Arc Launches TalentScout – Guide for Employers on How to Successfully Employ People with Autism One in 68 children today is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The unemployment rate of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including ASDs, is 85 percent. Because of these statistics, the Arc has launched a new resource called TalentScout. […]

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