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A Blog About Accessibility and Technical Communication

Whether you are familiar with the animated film/series “Creature Comforts”, you can quickly grasp the concept of “Creature Discomforts”. These are short television commercials, aired in the UK, which were prepared by Aardman Animation for Leonard Cheshire Disability.
These commercials show animals, well, creatures, with disabilities, telling their story to an unseen interviewer. You can [...]

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An example of free association is finding an unexpected gem while searching the Web for something else. While searching for photos of Washington, DC, I discovered a very interesting blog about psychology, neuroscience, vintage photos, Web-based testing, and lots more. The blog is called Dr. X’s Free Associations. Dr. X is a clinical psychologist who [...]

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The following announcement was sent to us by Rachel Houghton.
Renowned typographical foundry Fontsmith have teamed up with Mencap, the UK’s leading charity for people with learning disability, their families and supporters, to create a new corporate typeface as part of a complete rebranding exercise: “FS Me”. See the accessible PDF showing examples of the new [...]

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(This is an article reprinted here by kind permission from its author, Becky Morris.)
Disabled student service providers and vocational rehabilitation counselors are on the ‘front line’ addressing the needs of hard of hearing individuals. You are the professionals who need to understand the communication obstacles, introduce technical solutions and other support services to hard of [...]

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The department of Personnel at the State of New Jersey provides a text-based mode to their Web content using Usablenet Assistive as part of their efforts to comply with the ADA and Section 504. Usablenet Assistive converts a web page into its text-only version on-the-fly by eliminating all page layout that is present in the [...]

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21 June 2007—(Womenshealth.gov HealthDay News) – Lyrica (pregabalin) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat fibromyalgia. It’s the first drug approved in the United States to treat the condition that affects up to 6 million Americans, the agency said Thursday. People with fibromyalgia usually have chronic pain, muscle stiffness, fatigue, [...]

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Technical Summit tweets are aggregated at Twemes.
About Twemes:
Twemes.com follows public Twitter.com tweets (messages) that have embedded tags that start with a # character. These are sometimes called hashtags but we like to use the term “twemes”.
Through the use of twemes, we can all view what people are talking about across the whole Twitter universe. [...]

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My new mantra is “It’s not just the volume. It’s the clarity.” This was my biggest “Ah HA” moment regarding my ability to hear and enjoy the Technical Communication Summit in Philadelphia last week. I realized that I was hearing the speakers’ voices just fine but I was still not discerning each and every word [...]

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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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By Kath Moonan, AbilityNet
In this article Kath Moonan examines what Web 2.0 is and what implications it might have for disabled people who use the Web, particularly the use of Ajax for interactive web pages.
Read the full article at http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk/web20andaccessibility

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