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This article is the starting point for our collaborative research. The focus is barriers to learning due to accessibility issues, but research may include information on accessibility on the web as a whole. Do not limit your research to Web 2.0 techniques. I have no expertise in this area. We are learning about this together and I look forward to what you'll be teaching me! Please tag your bookmarks with S10accessibility. You are free to use additional tags, but it is important use the S10accessibility tag so that we all can find the bookmark, even in delicious.

This article was an eye opener to me. I knew there was need for accommodations for those with disabilities, but had not gone as far as to think how the web may not work with some of these accommodations. The article that I found was mainly about how yahoo is addressing these issues so it can be accessible to all users. The web big guns realize there is a problem and are trying to address it. With Web 2.0 you have so many contributors. How do you inform people of the need of accessibility for all

I feel a little silly making the following comment but, I found this article very touching. As I read, I found myself imagining what it would be like to have a disability and not have the opportunity to have the experiences and the freedoms that only can be offered via the Web and interfacing with computers. I am willing to advocate for people with disabilities who deserve the right to have accessability.

I chose this site because, next school I will be getting an visual impaired student in my classroom and we use computers to complete alot of our daily lessons. I found this information to be helpful.

These articles talks about how we as educators can eliminate barriers that may keep students with different types of disabilities from achieving their goals.

I had to read this book for another grad class and it really made me buy into UDL. I would recommend reading the section on assessment. It really helped me change the way I think about how assessment can help my students learn from themselves.

This is about UDL, which certainly addresses many aspects of accessibility. Diigo allows you to highlight and bookmark specific sections of webpages. You should find a section that addresses web 2.0 and bookmark that, otherwise we don't know where to look to find the web 2.0 related sections of this website.

I choose this site for a variety of reasons. Number one is for the tutorials it offers on a variety of hardware and software resources available for assistive technology. Any help in how to use some of these devices is bound to be beneficial. Another reason is for the abundant number of resources it provides - organizations, education, government, products, etc. Lastly, I choose this site because it provides basic information on AT use for elementary students with disabilities - including laws, computer adaptations, curriculum, and specialized options for distinct disabilities.

Since you mentioned you chose it for the tutorials & the tutorials link was prominent on the page you bookmarked, I found the web related material easily. Your bookmark would better fit the assignment requirement if it went directly to the Tutorial page because information on web related issues of accessibility is immediately presented there. The tutorials page is an excellent resource.

Thanks for the feedback, Carmin. To make things easier for future reference, here is the sight for the tutorials, http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials.php.

This report scores some of the most popular Web 2.0 resources in their ability to be accessible to individuals with disabilities.

The report focuses on Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, Bebo, and Youtube. All scored only one star - except Yahoo which scored two stars (out of five possible). They were scored based on their compliance to provisions within the Electronic and Information Technology Act.

After looking at Carlow's website and then seeing your post, I see how frustrating it must be for disabled people to use some of these SNS. I, at times, can find them hard to use and I have no disability. After reading and watching the videos on webAIM, I wondered if they were accessible friendly or not. I obviously have my answer.

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If you have none readers or children with difficulty seeing screenreader is great...it reads the website, the screen...whatever to the user. Also offers the reader in different languages.

This gives me another resource that I can use when working with my visually impaired student. My visually impaired students use headphones quite often during computer time because some of my students are distracted by the talking.

I have never used screen reader and now I will definitely begin!

I choose this site because of the online chats it offers and the networking through Ning, live blogs and listservs. It also offers great resource links for families and teachers.

I didn't immediately see the web related accessibility aspects in your bookmark, but then I also didn't have time to search the page you bookmarked. Diigo allows you to highlight and bookmark specific sections of webpages. You should find an Internet or web 2.0 related section on the page you bookmarked. Highlight & bookmark that section. Or bookmark a webpage clearly focused specifically on web related issues of accessibility.

As an educator I also want something hands-on that I can use NOW with my students. This site has software, links, articles, tutorials, and activities! I hope others can find it useful too!

Tanya, I researched this site for a previous class and ended up forwarding it to the chair of our Special Ed department. I speak with her about what they are doing in the classroom, and she shared that technology was a huge part of their day. We recently recieved a grant for more computers for her classroom. Great site!

There are lots of links, but many are 404s. Too bad, but this page is very old, and for me -- only 2 out of 9 links were still active. With so much current info available, it would be wise to offer this link with a caveat about dead links.

A great resource for students with many different disabilities from hearing impaired, visually impaired, ADD, etc. It offers suggestions, programs, printables, and other information.

What a fabulous find! I can't believe how many wonderful resources are linked to this site. The other part is that the resources are meaningful and encompass a large variety of disabilities. Worth bookmarking for sure.

A better bookmark for this assignment would be Resources for the Visually Impaired, because that page perfectly meets the assignment requirement of bookmarking information about web related issues of accessibility. Resources for the Visually Impaired is linked from the page you bookmarked, and since you tagged it visual-disability, I found this section easily.

One of my colleagues told me about this site. You can learn how to use Web 2.0 in your classroom, create a web portfolio, and how to use moodle.

This program allows children with autistic type disorders experience the web in a comfortable way for them. It can actually utilize a Wii remote as well! The browser only can access specific sites that have been deemed appropriate for children with these disorders in an attempt to reduce distractions and inappropriate material avaiable on the web.

Great example of a product that is addresses accessibility for people while using the web. Good use of highlighting the info that directly meets the assignment requirement. The use of highlights is one of Diigo's best features for group research.

Looks at specific disablilities and some online offerings that could help those students. Also lots of general sites to help students of all ability levels.

Dustin bookmarked an article about Proloquo2Go. This product offers speech communication assistance on an i-phone or i-touch. My Proloquo2Go bookmark demonstrates Diigo's Highlight feature. None of you used it in the assignment. But it is a powerful way to bookmark specific material. OK.. this is not exactly pure Web 2.0 AT, but it is an example of bookmarking a specific section of a page by using Diigo to highlight & bookmark the highlighted section.

This article addresses emerging technology in the ares of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning support. It addresses the question-what does each of these different learners need to support their learning?

This article addresses Web 2.0 challenges and possible resolutions for differently-able people.