STC AccessAbility SIG
A Blog About Accessibility

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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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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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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Access Technology Tips from the National Federation of the Blind
Apple® Accessibility Features Vision built into all Macintosh computers provides adjustable keyboard, an ergonomic mouse, CloseView screen magnification software, Easy Access system software (StickyKeys, SlowKeys, MouseKeys), electronic documentation, key-repeat disable, text-to-speech synthesis and voice recognition (PlainTalk), sticky mouse, and visual alert cues. The VoiceOver spoken English [...]

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Color Blind Product Resources
Glasses for the Color Blind

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Adaptive Riding
Assistance Dogs International, Inc.. Standards:

Ethical Use Standards for an Assistance Dog
Ethics Regarding Clients
Minimum Standards for Assistance Dogs in Public
Minimum Standards for Assistance Dog Partners
Minimum Standards for Training Guide Dogs
Minimum Standards for Training Hearing Dogs
Minimum Standards for Training Service Dogs

Assistive Horses: Hippotherapy
Assistive Pooches: Service Dogs
Canadian Guide Dogs For The Blind / Chiens Guides Canadiens [...]

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Accessibility Color Wheel Version 1.0 by Giacomo Mazzocato. When you hover over the color wheel, you’ll see text in colors for normal, Deuteranopia, Protanopia and Tritanopia color vision simultaneously. An "OK" message is displayed when you hover over an accessible color. By clicking on the color, you can copy the hex values. The tool may [...]

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ABLEDATA
Access Software Hal, Luna, LunaPlus, Super Nova, and Cicero screen readers and other access software that provides speech and Braille for Windows.
Active Living Alliance For Canadians with a Disability
ADA&IT Technical Assistance Centers
"All Access Pass: enabling technologies offer business possibilities," by Dan Costa, Communications, Home Office Computing, April 2001. (156 K )
Copyright 2001 Freedom Technology [...]

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Abilities Expo independent and assisted living products and services
The Boulevard a disability resource directory of products and services for the physically challenged, elderly, caregivers, and healthcare professionals
Color Blind Product Resources
Comfort Bath walk-in tub
DIMENET "DIMENET is a national computer networking system that is accessible at multiple locations and provides access for communications and information sharing among [...]

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