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Monthly Archive for September, 2015

What is web accessibility? Web accessibility is the practice of not creating barriers for users with disabilities when you’re building or changing a website. You may have heard the term and not really known what it meant, or come across guidelines and regulations (e.g. section 508, WCAG 2.0) and not really known what they were […]

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Accessibility in iOS 9 Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Apple released the latest version of their operating system for their mobile devices, iOS 9.0.  It was quickly followed by iOS 9.0.1—the current release. There are lots of little fixes, like the ability to use Siri voices for the speech output in VoiceOver, […]

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Caring for Patients who are blind or visually impaired From: Armed Forces Medicine – 2015 A Fact Sheet for the Inpatient Care Team This fact sheet is intended to assist all who provide direct inpatient care to blind or visually impaired Service members or Veterans. The bullets below suggest best practices for caring for blind […]

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Sometimes, AT is as simple as automated text reminders or phone alerts. And sometimes, it’s full of glitz, glam and ingenuity, like the dbGlove for the deaf/blind community. Or, the smart wheelchair that shares diagnostic medical results, includes GPS, and way more. There’s a whole lot of incredible happening in the world of AT. This […]

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Using Your Mobile Device During Emergencies Contributed by Provi Sharpe, Director of Emergency Management and Equipment Reuse, MDTAP June Isaacson Kailes, Disability Policy Consultant, recently released ”Tips for Emergency Use of Mobile Devices”. In this document she provides guidelines for optimal use of mobile devices before, during, and after an emergency. You will get information […]

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Section 508 Best Practices Webinar: Basic Testing Guide for Making an Accessible PDF (September 29) The next webinar in the Section 508 Best Practices Webinar Series will take place September 29 from 1:00 to 2:30 (ET) and will cover testing of Portable Document Format (PDF) files for compliance with the Section 508 Standards. Presenters will […]

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