STC AccessAbility SIG
A Blog About Accessibility

June 11-14, 2008
American Physical Therapy Association: "Conference and Exposition"
Location: San Antonio, TX
June 16-20, 2008
Usability Professionals’ Association Conference: "UPA 2008: The Many Faces of User Experience: Usability through holistic practice"
Location: Baltimore, MD
More information: Conference information
June 24, 2008
Eastern Ergonomics Conference and Exposition: "Program Management, Office Ergonomics, Industrial Ergonomics"
Location: American Conference Center, New York City, NY
June 29 - [...]

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Each year at the STC conferences, the AccessAbility SIG publishes a roadmap to sessions that are related to accessibility or usability. 2008 is no different. Download the
AccessAbility SIG conference roadmap 2008 today.
Highlights
The SIG luncheon and SIG business meeting are two obvious highlights. The SIG luncheon is on Monday, June 2 at 12 noon in the [...]

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The following information was provided by Allen Rotz. While at the conference in Philadelphia, check out the interesting adaptive use of the Reading Railroad Terminal: http://www.paconvention.com/art/history.asp. It also includes the Reading Terminal Market which has several interesting eateries for lunch. Some serve breakfast.

http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/about/
http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/merchants/category/pennsylvaniadutch Unfortunately, the Pennsylvania Dutch businesses are only open Wed-Sat.
http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/merchants/category/restaurants
From the Washington Post’s [...]

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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 [...]

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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
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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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"Bibliography for Performance Systems Technology (PST) and Computer-based Instruction (CBI)" published in the ACM SIGDOC Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD) [JCD is no longer being produced. ACM SIGDOC members are able to get copies of archived journals.]
California Learning Resource Network
Learning Disabilities Association of America
LD Online provides information on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and professionals.
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