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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.

It is important to make the curriculum accessible to all learners and provide opportunities for struggling learners to demonstrate what they know using principles of universal design.

I watched the video by the Blue Man Group! Very interesting! I couldn't imagine wearing that dress. Thanks for the site! All the resources for assistive technology look very helpful.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Tools for students with special needs. This site lists lots of published articles, but you have to refer to the publisher for a copy of the article.

This is a FABULOUS resource! I went to a regional AT conference last year, and this was one of the big topics of discussion.

Thanks for this site also. I really want my student to feel part of the class in every way that I can.

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 .

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.