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Sarah Loveland

Disability.gov - 5 views

www.disability.gov

S10accessibility disability web2.0

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  • Sarah Loveland on 20 Feb 10
     
    I chose this site because I first stumbled upon a blog that talked about how this website was changing to include social networking for people with disabilities. There are links to assistive technology sources, employment and support for those people who need to find an organization to join by their state, or if they just want to hear what's new .
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  • Wade Vandervest on 21 Feb 10
     
    Sarah, I almost picked the same site. It was one of a couple that I have been looking at. It is very comprehenive in the details that it provides. It gives you information about each state and it also provides information for educators, parents, etc. I very valuable resource.
  • carmin karasic on 03 Mar 10
     
    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.
  • Sarah Loveland on 06 Mar 10
     
    Here is the new link to my bookmark: http://www.disability.gov/technology/Assistive_Technology/computer I decided to highlight what I thought were the best links from the original link I posted. Should I add a new bookmark to the entire page?
Carrie Gierach

Accessibility4all - 7 views

accessibility4all.wikispaces.com

S10accessessibility

shared by Carrie Gierach on 05 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Beware of Flash players
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  • Web 2.0Web 2.0 "read/write" online applications are great, but some have accessibility barriers: see the section about flash players above; visual CAPTCHAs for creating an account - or worse, for adding a comment - also block blind people.However, the Web 2.0 platforms are improving, and so is accessive technology. Moreover, people with some types of disabilities (cognitive, reading, but also severe motor disabilities) can be very keen on using them - think of social networking - and yet particularly need guidance in this. So schools cannot just simply ignore them: compromises must be found.If your school has an accessibility consultant, ask him/her. Otherwise, there is a LinkedIn Web 2.0 Accessibility Forum (you'll have to sign up, but it is free).
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  • Carrie Gierach on 05 Mar 10
     
    I think this is a great find! This wiki site offers detailed information on how to make your webpages accessible to people with disabilities.
carmin karasic

REQUIRED BROWSING: Introduction to Web Accessibility - 9 views

webaim.org/intro

S10accessibility web2.0

shared by carmin karasic on 16 Feb 10 - Cached
  • carmin karasic on 16 Feb 10
     
    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.
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  • Kristen Weber on 21 Feb 10
     
    Viewing the second video in this really made me sad. It is so hard for a teen already to make it through life, let alone one with disabilities. Their peers (unfortunately) are probably already making fun of them or ostracizing them for their differences. It makes me hurt to see that they are pushed even further away from "normal" when they cannot complete assignments that their teachers are giving them. What happened to accommodations?!
  • carmin karasic on 22 Feb 10
     
    All the more reason to spread the word & advocate change.
  • Natalie Lewis on 25 Feb 10
     
    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
  • Cottey greene on 26 Feb 10
     
    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.
Barbara Turner

Disaboom.com - 6 views

www.disaboom.com

S10accessibility assistive_technology web2.0

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  • Barbara Turner on 20 Feb 10
     
    This is a wonderful website that I found linked to a blog about Web 2.0 and students with disabilities. This site contains a wealth of information for people with disabilities and those wishing to learn more. There is also a huge section on education and different technology tools that can be used to enhance learning.
  • anonymous on 21 Feb 10
     
    Great Find! From the article on the Abilities Expo I followed a link to an article, Assistive Technology Gets a New Voice, which led me to ablebody.com, and their blog, filled with up-to-date information on AT.
  • carmin karasic on 03 Mar 10
     
    The blog about Web 2.0 and students with disabilities would be a better bookmark for this assignment, because the assignment requires that you bookmark a webpage specifically about web related issues of accessibility. Disaboom most likely also has information specific to the web & disabilities. Diigo allows you to highlight and bookmark specific sections of webpages. You should find an Internet or web 2.0 related section on Disaboom. Highlight & bookmark that section. Or bookmark a webpage clearly focused specifically on web related issues of accessibility.
Cottey greene

Web Accessibility - 1 views

www.w3.org/...accessibility

assistive_technology web accessibility web2.0

shared by Cottey greene on 26 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Cottey greene on 26 Feb 10
     
    I am late with my post. Therefore, I will comment here regarding the value of the site I chose to research. This site provides a basic comprehensive view of web accessibility for individuals who fall within the criterion of being disabled. This site points out different types of disabitlites fall in a diverse range such as, visual, auditory, cognitive imparities to the elder. The Web accessibility is in place to assist any range of disabled challenges that individuals face when navigating and understanding the Web. A large amount of focus of the site is placed on Web developers to create and make avaliable software that allows people with disabilities to ultilize the Web. I feel this site offers a great overview to provide basic information of understanding.
Carrie Gierach

Social Networking Accessibility Report - 3 views

www.fctd.info/4949

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  • Carrie Gierach on 22 Feb 10
     
    This report scores some of the most popular Web 2.0 resources in their ability to be accessible to individuals with disabilities.
  • Carrie Gierach on 22 Feb 10
     
    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.
  • Missy Tassone on 22 Feb 10
     
    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.
tanya kienlen

Exceptional Children Resources - 3 views

www.internet4classrooms.com/assistive_tech.htm

S10accessibility visual_disability hearing_disability assistive_technology

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  • tanya kienlen on 21 Feb 10
     
    A great resource for students with many different disabilities from hearing impaired, visually impaired, ADD, etc. It offers suggestions, programs, printables, and other information.
  • Cottey greene on 26 Feb 10
     
    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.
  • carmin karasic on 03 Mar 10
     
    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.
Missy Tassone

ATTO: Assistive Technology Training Online - 0 views

atto.buffalo.edu

S10accessibility resources assistive_technology

shared by Missy Tassone on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Missy Tassone on 22 Feb 10
     
    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.
  • carmin karasic on 03 Mar 10
     
    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.
  • Missy Tassone on 04 Mar 10
     
    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.
Kristen Weber

Web 2.0 and disabilities - 6 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...tudents-with-disabilities.html

web 2.0 disabilites teacher resources

shared by Kristen Weber on 23 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Kristen Weber on 23 Feb 10
     
    Here is another great article I found by FINALLY going through my Google Reader. And I MUST SHARE THIS SITE WITH YOU so you can add it to your RSS feeds: free4teachers.com. I have found SO MANY resources in 5 minutes!
  • Missy Tassone on 24 Feb 10
     
    Great find Kristen! I like all the extra links down on the left side of the page (Favorite Resource List). I am definitely adding this to my RSS feed.
Wade Vandervest

United Response Web Page - 1 views

www.unitedresponse.org.uk/change

S10accessibility

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  • Wade Vandervest on 21 Feb 10
     
    I choose this website for a couple of reasons. The first reason was the fact that the company is there to help people with disabilities. The second reason was the fact that you could change many attributes of the webpage. This is a very neat feature to me. It is also neat to think about the fact that this is a world issue not just a US issue.
  • tanya kienlen on 21 Feb 10
     
    This is a neat site, and it is nice to consider that this is a world issue. I like the fact that you can change the size of the text on the page. This is helpful to a lot of people...not just for those with extreme disabilities. Sometimes I wish that our lesley discussion board had bigger text...late nights I find myself squinting :)
Kristen Weber

AT wins again - 2 views

www.edutopia.org/assistivetechnology

motor disability AT

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  • Kristen Weber on 21 Feb 10
     
    I chose this site because, as I was browsing before, I saw SO MANY devices and links for students with visual and auditory issues, but very little (in comparison) for physical and cognitive issues. In this article/video, I was amazed to read and see a student able to be successful even though he could only use his eyebrows!
  • Cottey greene on 26 Feb 10
     
    This site was touching. It does a great job of hooking the reader into the cause of advocacy for individuals with disabilities. I am very impressed with the progress that has been made through the DO-IT program. Edutopia is a great resource in itself.
  • carmin karasic on 03 Mar 10
     
    A better bookmark for this assignment would be DO-IT, because DO-IT perfectly meets the assignment requirement of information about web related issues of accessibility.
angela copridge

Limiting Barriers - 3 views

www.cast.org/...tes

S10accessibility

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  • angela copridge on 20 Feb 10
     
    These articles talks about how we as educators can eliminate barriers that may keep students with different types of disabilities from achieving their goals.
  • Sarah Loveland on 20 Feb 10
     
    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.
  • carmin karasic on 03 Mar 10
     
    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.
Jeanette Schuster

Family Center on Technology and Disability - 3 views

www.fctd.info/

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  • Jeanette Schuster on 21 Feb 10
     
    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.
  • carmin karasic on 03 Mar 10
     
    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.
carmin karasic

Proloquo2Go: AAC in Your Pocket - What is Proloquo2Go? - 3 views

www.proloquo2go.com/...what-is-proloquo2go

mobiles S10accessibility assistive_technology

shared by carmin karasic on 04 Mar 10 - Cached
  • this a great solution for children and adults with autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, developmental disabilities, or apraxia.
  • carmin karasic on 04 Mar 10
     
    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.
Wade Vandervest

Center for Disability Information and Referral Blog - 1 views

cedir.blogspot.com/...iep-iphone-app.html

web2.0

shared by Wade Vandervest on 21 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Wade Vandervest on 21 Feb 10
     
    This blog has noted an Iphone app that is an IEP checklist for parents. It is an interesting feature for parents to have. Parents can have the template infront of them and ask teachers questions as they go through the IEP meeting.
Carlow Edwards

Web Accessibility Meets Web 2.0: What Future Ahead? - 8 views

www.masternewmedia.org/...accessibility_meets_web_20.htm

web2.0 S10accessibility

shared by Carlow Edwards on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Carlow Edwards on 19 Feb 10
     
    As user generated content become more of the drive force on the Web there is a need to update the accessibility for all to share. This article shed some light on the issues and challenges that programmers and people are facing.
  • Carrie Gierach on 22 Feb 10
     
    Your resource punctuated on the reasoning for many Web 2.0 technologies to score so low in the Social Networking Accessibility Report I shared. These technologies are user created content and are growing at such a rapid pace, noone at this point can keep up to make sure its accessibility is available to all individuals with disabilities.
  • Natalie Lewis on 25 Feb 10
     
    This is exactly what I was thinking about...how do you govern all the people that are contributing? I guess the best way is to try to inform and teach about the factors of accessibility. The web is a great place for that.
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