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Madeline Brownstone

The Problem with PDF Content « The BAT Channel - 0 views

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accessibility visually impaired' vision impaired equality of access

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 15 Jul 10
     
    Blog--NOT news item--devoted to assistive tech for the vision impaired
Madeline Brownstone

The DOJ and ADA Mandate Ebook Readers Be Accessible to All - 2 views

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accessibility ebooks education

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 30 Jan 10
     
    "On Dec. 9, perhaps anticipating DOJ action, Amazon announced that audio menu features would be available on Kindle e-readers by summer 2010. Amazon's press release at the time noted that Kindle "has enabled many vision-impaired readers to enjoy books more easily than before, and has also helped dyslexic readers and those with learning disabilities improve their reading skills. ... To make Kindle more useful for the blind, the Kindle team is currently working on an audible menuing system so blind and vision-impaired readers can easily navigate to books unassisted. ... In addition, a new super size font will be added to Kindle, increasing the number of font sizes from six to seven. This seventh font size will be twice the height and width of the current largest font" "
Madeline Brownstone

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Moneybox | Bank upgrade is excluding blind - 2 views

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assistive technologies disability and ICT blind 1.7_equality_access

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  • Madeline Brownstone on 19 Jan 10
     
    "Visually impaired customers of American Express say they can no longer read their credit card statements online. In December Amex changed its format for UK statements from HTML to Portable Document Format or PDF. However, it failed to encode the new PDF documents so they could be read by "screen readers," special software used by blind or partially sighted people. "
Mitchell Springer

Mobile phone radiation wrecks your sleep - Health News, Health & Families - The Indepen... - 0 views

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ITGS11-P1 Health cell phones radiation

shared by Mitchell Springer on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • "making people more alert and more focused, and decreasing their ability to wind down and fall asleep"
  • reporting symptoms such as headaches and impaired cognitive function from mobile phone use. But they proved to be unable to tell if they had been exposed to the radiation in the test.
  • For they show that the radiation did have an effect, even though people could not tell when they were exposed.
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  • Radiation from mobile phones delays and reduces sleep,
  • Radiation from mobile phones delays and reduces sleep, and causes headaches and confusion, according to a new study.
  • Mitchell Springer on 19 Nov 09
     
    I, Mitchell S., claim this article as my lead article for portfolio 1
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