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Indrani Mehdi is worthy of an Ada Lovelace Day tribute. On March 8th, at EmTech India 2010, the Emerging Technologies Conference recently held in Bengaluru, India, she was honored as a “technological trendsetter”. March 8th is, incidentally, International Women’s Day, and Medhi was the only woman to be honored with inclusion in the India TR35 [...]
From Space Daily, Tokyo (AFP), 26 August 2009 Robotics and medical experts in Japan on Wednesday unveiled the prototype of a new hi-tech electric wheelchair that resembles a scooter and promises greater mobility. Users ride astride the four-wheeled Rodem—rather than sitting in it, as in a conventional wheelchair—steer it with a joystick and hold onto [...]
David Pogue, the Keynote speaker at the STC conference, gave one of the funniest keynotes we’ve ever had. It was a shame that it wasn’t recorded. However, I found a recording of a similar keynote address he gave to TED last year. The first half is similar to the one he gave to us and [...]
Deschamps’ Mobi-Mat provides access for wheelchairs, strollers, and pedestrians on sand, grass, or other soft and unstable surfaces. The beach access mat is a light portable polyester matting that is temporarily or permanently laid down on the ground to provide non-slip and traffic resistant access for all. Ultra-light, easy to set up and store, Mobi-Mat [...]
In Norwegian with English subtitles… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cd7Bsp3dDo
I’m trying out the AT&T Labs Text-to-Speech demo that came to my attention on Twitter. I encourage you to do the same! It answered a question that had bothered me for some time. How do text-to-speech tools handle spelling errors and emoticons? Well, a lot depends on context, but I still think people should stop [...]
In this BBC documentary, Peter White explores the history of Braille – from its revolutionary invention to its current decline in the face of modern digital technology. For information and Web service providers, what are the design and testing implications going forward? See http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2008/12/081230_doc_braille.shtml?s .
I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same. - Suw Charman-Anderson And Ada Lovelace Day was born. (More about what we expect from you, dear reader, but first, a little background.) Suw Charman-Anderson set up [...]
Another great project for technical communicators is happening right now over at WebAIM. As announced recently on the WebAIM blog, they have started a translation project for WAVE, WebAIM’s web accessibility evaluation tool. After all, who says web accessibility evaluation is only necessary in English! First stop is Spanish. The Center for Persons with Disabilities [...]
We want to share a great link from the Web Axe blog and podcast site. They passed along Deborah Edwards-Onoro’s article, which covers Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs. The ten tips are Use a structured source document Save/export document as tagged PDF Add title, author, subject and keywords Add bookmarks Initial view [...]
As of 1 February 2008, technical support ended for the Netscape browsers. For more information, read the 28 Dec 2007 announcement posted on the Netscape blog at http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers. AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many [...]
By DAVID S. JOACHIM Published: December 6, 2006; The New York Times As both the price and size of computer chips shrink, manufacturers are enhancing the abilities of things like phones, navigation systems and even home appliances. These so-called accessibility technologies are not only for those with disabilities. For people with chronic ailments, these products [...]
DIMENET "DIMENET is a national computer networking system that is accessible at multiple locations and provides access for communications and information sharing among individuals involved in the disability rights and independent living movements." Enabling Technologies sells the Romeo and Juliet braille printers among other items. Ergoboard ArmRest helps prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and other Repetitive [...]
Accessible Housing Accommodation and Compliance Series: Employees with Fibromyalgia Syndrome provided by the Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor (.pdf) Adaptive Architecture Adaptive Environments human centered design Center for Accessible Environments (CAE) is concerned with the practicalities of inclusive design in the built environment. [United Kingdom] Center for Universal Design The Center [...]
AbilityHub assistive technology for computers and disability Accessible Housing Adaptech Research Network In partnership with the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), the Adaptech Research Project conducts research on the use of computer technologies by Canadian college and university students with disabilities. [Canada] list of free and/or inexpensive hardware and software alternatives that might [...]
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