Alternative Versions Difficulty: Beginner Category: Principles Building one version of a site that is highly accessible is the best approach to accessibility. Providing alternative versions or directing users to accessible or mobile versions of a site can be interpreted a segregation and separation, particularly if the content and functionality is not similar or equivalent to […]
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Seeing Assistant Home Lite Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Transition Technologies has recently released the app Seeing Assistant Home. The lite version of the app is free, and it provides several useful tools. The “light detector” changes pitch as the level of light, as detected by the rear camera, increases or decreases. […]
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Wondering what assistive technology MDTAP has in its lab? Check out our complete online inventory by browsing all devices or searching by AT category to find what you’re looking for.
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Safety from the Summer Heat Contributed by Provi Sharpe, Director of Emergency Management & Reuse Projects, MDTAP The summer is here along with occasionally dangerous heat. Did you know that people with medical conditions, infants, children and seniors are more prone to extreme heat stress? Did you know that heat related illness and death are […]
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Skip Links Difficulty: Beginner Category: Structure Presentation “Skip to main content” or “skip navigation” links provide a mechanism for keyboard users to jump over repetitive navigation directly to the main content of a page. These links must be one of the first links on a page and must be visually apparent in order to provide […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP There is a great new Website–http://baltimorecode.org/. It’s all of the city’s codes and statutes laid out and available for anyone. It’s true that all of this information had been available previously. But often it required sifting through monolithic PDF files. Baltimorecode.org and it’s companion site marylandcode.org are […]
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