STC AccessAbility SIG
A Blog About Accessibility and Technical Communication

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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Looking for some “deaf blogs”? The Stone Deaf Pilots is a great place to start. It is a blog dedicated
deaf technology, assistive technology, and tech-related accessibility issues faced by the deaf and hard of hearing. This blog is for anyone, deaf or hearing, who wants to learn more about deaf technology and non-deaf-specific technology that [...]

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DAISY Consortium The DAISY Consortium was founded in 1996 and consists of organizations around the world who are committed to developing the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY). DAISY is a digital standard for producing accessible and navigable multimedia documents. These documents are Digital Talking Books, digital text books, or a combination of synchronised audio and [...]

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The Blind Eye is a hybrid audio game, like The Curb Game and Terraformers at http://www.audiogames.net/db.php?action=view&id=theblindeye. The game was the result of The Blind Eye Research Project, developed in Denmark in 2000, where the participant has the opportunity to experience the virtual world in a manner similar to being visually blind. Conceptually, The Blind Eye [...]

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A Universal Computer Braille Code For Literary And Scientific Texts by Durre, Karl P.; Tuttle, Dean W. and Durre, Ingeborg.
About Braille by Liz Gray, Braille Transcriber, Certified by the Library of Congress in Literary Braille.
The Braille Bug The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) created the Braille Bug web site to teach sighted children about [...]

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How Does a Screen Reader Work?
New Vision Technology: news about technology improvements to improve your vision such as mobile phones, screen readers, software for programmers, and more
Screen Access For All (SAFA), Screen reader in Indian languages

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The AFB Evaluates Cell Phones. The American Federation for the Blind (AFB) evaluated 11 of the top cell phones on the market to determine the accessibility of today’s cell phones for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Owasys 22C allows you to make and receive telephone calls using an easily understood speaking interface. They omitted [...]

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How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision
Newton’s Apple teacher guides: Human Eye. How does the human eye see? How does the eyeball work?
Sensitivity for global shape detection
Glossary of Lasik Laser Eye Surgery Related Terms
What do dogs see?

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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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