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- VisionAware Excellent resource site for people who are blind. Includes interviews, news updates and more.
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- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Official Site for the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
- Section508.gov This law states that all government related technology must be universally accessible.
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Archive for the Category: Disability
Steve Jobs, Apple, Accessibility, and other Thoughts
Because of Steve Jobs and Apple’s committment to universal accessibility, people who are blind, deaf, or mobility impaired can use Apple’s products with ease. There’s long font, VoiceOver, color contrast, Dragon Dictation, and many more accessibility features to choose from. The iPhone 4s and iOS5 will bring even more cool accessibility features and much needed [...]
Also posted in Accessibility, Uncategorized Tagged Amazon, Apple, blind, deaf, iPad, iPhone, mobility, steve jobs, voiceover
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A Survival Guide for New Deafies
For those of you who have late onset deafness and for those who are interesteed in learning more about it, here’s a good book you should read. A Survival Guide for New Deafies, written by Amy Sargent, who lost her hearing at age 27. Here’s a more detailed description of the book and the opporttunity [...]
Also posted in Disability Awareness, Uncategorized Tagged a survival guide for new deafies, amy sargent, cochlear implant, communication, deaf
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Monica & David
Monica & David is an award winning documentary about a couple with Down Syndrome. They fall in love, get married, and seek the independent life that other adults take for granted. They also face a harsh world that has a hard time accepting the validity of their love. Love has no boundaries when it [...]
Also posted in Accessibility, Disability Awareness Tagged alexandra codina, blind, deaf, hearing, monica & david, vision
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Blind Photography
I never really showed much interest in photography until I graduated from high school and got my first digital camera. After that, my love for photography really took off. My favorite type of photography is scenice: flowers, waterfalls, mountains, sunsets, you name it. I guess I can consider myself a blind photographer because I am [...]
Disney Accessibility Features
The summer is a great time to head to theme parks. Disney has a lot of great options for people with hearing, vision, and mobility impairments. They offer captioning, wheelchairs, sign language, audio descriptions and more. I am particularly excited that they have assistive listening devices. Here is the website. It explains what services they [...]
intuition and the Senses
I just read a really interesting article about a Gallaudet study regarding vision in people who are hearing versus people who are deaf. When we lose one or two of our senses, the others tend to take over and be heightened. In regards to a deaf person’s vision, they tend to have more “visual attention” [...]
Also posted in Disability Awareness Tagged blind, deaf, gallaudet, hearing, vision, visual attention
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Deaf-Blind Awareness Week
This week is Deaf-Blind Awareness Week. For more information about it visit the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf Blind Youth and Adults website: http://www.hknc.org/DBA2011MAIN.htm One thing to note, the term “Deaf-Blind” does not mean that someone is totally deaf-blind. Someone might have functional vision and hearing, but need assistance so that they can participate [...]
Libraries Putting Assistive Technologies in the Cloud
Unfortunately I didn’t get to attend the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in New Orleans this year. They provide a good deal of information on twitter and in the virtual environment that allows those of us left behind to still get in on the action. Library Journal has an article about an excellent project that [...]
Also posted in Assistive Technology Tagged ALA, American Library Association, annual conference, cloud, cloud computing, global public inclusive infrastructure, GPII, institution, internet, libraries, library, smartphone
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Fun Summer Camp Experiences at Camp Dogwood
Summer has arrived, and with it comes the joys of splashing, galloping, and grilling, to name a few possibilities. If you, your child or your parent has a disability, there is certainly no reason that these activities can’t be engaged in. Of particular interest to parents and children, there are summer camps. The parents get [...]
Tagged camp dogwood, summer camp
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NYPL’s Accessibility Reading List
The NYPL has compiled a list of books for and about people with disabilities. Thought you might be interested. AccessAbility: http://legacy.www.nypl.org/branch/books/index2.cfm?ListID=131
