Where It's AT – Assistive Technology Blog

Simplify Data Tables Accessibility of data tables can be achieved by identifying table headers and defining whether they are row or column headers, i.e for example, <th scope=”col”> Complex tables (those that have more than one level of row or column header, or spanned data or header cells) can easily become too complex for screen […]

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A lesser known corner of the Assistive Technology world is making scientific instruments accessible.  Independence Science has taken on this challenge.  Their products allow visually-impaired high school and college students to gather and analyze  scientific data independently and without sighted assistance. With the addition of the ISCI Visual Access Software, the Vernier LabQuest unit is made […]

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TCM to Examine Hollywood’s Depiction of People with Disabilities in The Projected Image: A History of Disability in Film in October Lawrence Carter-Long Joins TCM’s Robert Osborne for Historic Month-Long Film Exploration, Presented in Collaboration with Inclusion in the Arts Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will dedicate the month of October to exploring the ways people […]

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The free FRIENDS WHO CARE® disability awareness program is a curriculum designed to help parents and educators teach children about other children and adults with disabilities. Developed by Easter Seals and sponsored by Friendly’s, FRIENDS WHO CARE is designed to encourage typically developing children to accept their peers with disabilities as people first and also to […]

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Layout Tables Tables in HTML are intended for tabular data. Although using tables for page layout is not considered best practice, this typically has minimal impact on accessibility, as long as two primary guidelines are kept in mind. First, do not use any markup that is typically used to identify data tables. This includes table […]

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Automatically Generating Tactile Visualizations of Coordinate Spaces using 3D Printers Guest blog post by Chris Kidd, Craig Brown (http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu/~cbrown16/), and Amy Hurst (http://amyhurst.com/) Visual representations of information have become common in the media, business, and our home lives. For example, news publishers visually illustrate trends in public sentiment on policy issues over time; meetings and […]

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