I picked this article to share this week because I am very interested in voice recognition software. It can help people that have restricted use of their hands to write, or enable people who can't touch type to produce documents more quickly. My students come in all shapes, sizes, and weaknesses. I have to deal with illegible writing on a daily basis. Many students, not only people with disabilities, can benefit from voice recognition software.

Jessica, your article on "Making Math Accessible" hit a chord.
This is such a powerful title, "When will they stop ignoring students with disabilities?"
I feel the frustration. Students are entering my class at the middle school level deficient in all areas of vital math skills, such as knowledge of number properties and operations, measurement, basic geometry, data analysis, statistics, probability, and algebra as the website stated. It is alarming that no one mentions the fact that too many of the students with disabilities score at the bottom in math and science, since they are highly elated to each other, and rarely go on to get advanced degrees or go to college. I always felt that one of the major factors in keeping students with disabilities from math success was their lack of reading ability. It makes since that one critical issue which is overlooked is the fact that science and math educational materials in our schools are not accessible to students with disabilities. As a math teacher, this is something I will work harder on; making my notes and text information more accessible.

There are billions of people who face problems in accessing webpages, including people with disabilities, elderly people, and illiterate people in developing countries. The needs for accessible webpages have become too broad to be left only to Web developers. The wisdom of crowds has become part of a key strategy to combine various skills and knowledge into a community that can address the needs for accessibility. Social Accessibility is one such project for visually impaired people, which has been operating for more than a year, producing findings and new challenges. The collaborative approach can work well and be expanded for people with other problems such as poor hearing, aged eyes, and reading problems. I chose this site because it includes the elderly and the illiterate when talking about web accessibility.

This article is about how Web 2.0 accessibility must be mainstreamed for people with disabilities. I chose this site because it talks about mainstreaming accessibility to ALL people with disabilities. This site is through in defining web accessibility, its barriers, and its solutions.