STC AccessAbility SIG
A Blog About Accessibility

Lori Gillen, incoming Co-Manager of the SIG, put together some useful tips for participants attending this year’s STC conference in Philadelphia.
These tips can be used at any presentation, anywhere, of course! The tips are provided to help conference participants hear better and get much more out of their conference experience.

Sit next to one of the [...]

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Lori Gillen, incoming Co-Manager of the SIG, put together some useful tips for speakers at this year’s STC conference in Philadelphia.
The tips are provided to help speakers ensure better hearing of presentation content. These tips can be used for any presentation, anywhere, of course. Your audience will thank you!

Bring written content (slide presentation with useful [...]

Read: Low-Tech Tips for Hearing at the Conference: Did You Hear My Presentation? »

Artificial Vision System
BehindTheMedspeak: BrainPort – See with your tongue and hear and touch as well.
NovaVision VRT: Vision Restoration Therapy – addressing vision loss after stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or optic nerve injury
Tongue Display Unit (TDU)

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Ability Magazine
Access World from the American Foundation for the Blind
Acupuncture in Medicine
ADDitude is a resource for people with ADD or AD/HD or people who have children with ADD or AD/HD
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) eNews
Arthritis Today Magazine
Archive of Vision and other Health Articles from USA Today Health
Blind Skills Dialogue Magazine. A World of [...]

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Bibliography—literature in relation to Design for All (299 K ) edited by Greta Olsson & Thomas Lyhne. This Bibliography is a part of CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 "Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities". The Guide addresses relevant aspects relating to the needs of older persons and persons [...]

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America’s Literacy Directory (ALD) is a national database of literacy programs available via the Internet and the National Institute for Literacy’s toll-free number. The ALD is a service of the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
"Disability, Accessibility and Electronic Literacy" Special Topic in Currents in Electronic Literacy, Spring 2001 (No. 4)
Daisy Consortium The DAISY standard is [...]

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California Learning Resource Network
Learning Disabilities Association of America
LD Online provides information on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and professionals.
National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) provides information about learning disabilities, early literacy and learning resources, support for adolescents and adults with learning disabilities, public policy and advocacy tools.
NLDLine provides information about nonverbal learning disorders.
The Educational Testing [...]

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Accessibility and E-Learning Useful links from the CETIS-TechDis Accessibility SIG
AbleNet products and solutions for teaching children with disabilities
accesselearning A free, online 10-module tutorial that offers information, instructional techniques, and practice labs on how to make the most common needs in distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities, and enhance the usability of online materials for [...]

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The Accessibility Guide to the STC 55th conference was prepared to help you with your conference preparation. As promised in the guide, we are continuing the discussion of tips and suggestions here on the blog.
Just in from Marc Gravez, Vice-President and acting/interim President of the Philadelphia chapter, is a very useful description of getting around [...]

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In this year’s pre-conference program, Whitney Quesenbery is running a certificate program that should catch the attention of any technical communicator interested in usability and accessibility. Anyone attending will definitely learn from this very, very knowledgeable member of - among other groups - the STC’s AccessAbility SIG and Usability and User Experience SIG.
Whitney comments [...]

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