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Bookshare - Accessible Books for Individuals with Print Disabilities - 0 views

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    Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities
Patrick Black

iTunes - Books - The Two Kids and Desert Town by Mr. Smith's 5th Grade Class - 0 views

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    written by special education students, for special education students!
Patrick Black

SpeEdChange: A 'Universal' VoiceThread? Not quite. And, Google and Prezi - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Black on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • VoiceThread has failed to work with any kind of screen reader, leaving those with sight issues, and reading issues, disconnected... from totally to partially
  • VoiceThread Universal lets full-scale screen readers, software like JAWS and ORCA, read the text comments left on a VoiceThread and allow navigation. The navigation allows you to add comments as well, and that's great. But as the developers point out, the current system won't help you with, "creating and adding content to VoiceThreads," won't allow searches, doesn't allow phone integration, though they say all these things are being "worked on."
  • A bigger issue for me is that neither VoiceThread nor VoiceThread Universal works with the kind of "light" screen readers used by those with dyslexia.
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  • So, is it OK for us to use these tools in schools? I am conflicted. I tend to think "yes" assuming that we always - automatically - provide alternative access capability which is, essentially, equal. After all, we still use those inaccessible books in our rooms, we still let teachers write, in handwriting no less, on the "board." But I'm bothered by it because use may tend to remove the pressure on these organizations to move toward accessibility. These companies want access to our students, should we offer that if they don't really want access to all of our kids?
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