Contributed by Provi Sharpe, Director of Emergency Management and Equipment Reuse, MDTAP Disabled Sports USA offers information on year-round adaptive sports for people with various disabilities. Baltimore Adapted Recreation and Sports is a local, non-profit organization that also offers year-round recreational opportunities to individuals with disabilities. Their winter sports activities include their annual SKI MASH […]
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It’s a little later in the day than usual for getting these out, but that’s okay. Now you can have some light (and inspirational) reading before bed tonight. Enjoy! AT in the news for the week of 1/13 – 1/17. Wheelchair icon revamped by guerrilla art project Gift of mobility: West Sider helps develop ‘KidWalk’ “A […]
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It’s that time again when we feature some of the newest items posted on Equipment Link. To see a complete listing, visit www.equipmentlink.org 1987 Ford e150 with Braun Hydraulic Lift – $1,100 or Best Offer, Vintondale, PA Hospital Bed – $500, Silver Spring, MD 2009 Chrysler Town and Country Accessible Van – $20,000, Frederick, MD […]
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Title Attributes Difficulty: Advanced Category: Content Presentation As defined in the HTML specification, the title attribute is for “advisory information”. As such, it should not be relied on to provide accessibility. The title attribute is generally ignored by screen readers, except when used on form elements that do not have labels, frames and iframes, and […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP As we posted on both Facebook and Twitter earlier this afternoon, Window-Eyes is now free to any user of MS Office 2010 or later. By going to www.windoweyesforoffice.com and selecting my language, I promptly found myself in possession of a fully-functional copy of Window-Eyes. The installation took around […]
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Charting Deaf Territory, Part Two How UVa Is Managing To Accommodate a Deaf Medical Student Contributed by Christopher Sherman Read, Accessible Technology Specialist, University of Virginia What Has Worked Well The Q & A with faculty is critical and we continue to conduct interactive sessions with each new group of system leaders every 6 […]
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