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Tag Archives: Facebook
Facebook Accessibility Fail
I feel like Facebook has gotten increasingly inaccessible over the years. Back in 2004 when it first started, all we had was a profile. No statuses, links, or pictures. No newfeed. It just keeps getting more and ore cluttered and graphic oriented. What is up with the new newsfeed within a newsfeed? All of this [...]
Cognitive Accessibility
Hi all, Some of you might be interested in the Cognitive Accessibility Facebook page. Here is the info: “Visit http://www.facebook.com/CognitiveAccessibility to give your thoughts about accessible technology design for people with cognitive disabilities. Youir comments will help create design standards through a new committee (the RESNA Committee for Cognitive Technologies). This is a project of the [...]
Social Networking – What Can it Do for You?
Social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter have been huge in the past few years. I remember when I first joined Facebook and it was just limited to a few colleges. I’ve been seeing several blog posts about how these social networks can be helpful for the deaf community in both social and emergency [...]
Google+ First Impressions
I got an invite to Google+, new Google social networking site and decided to poke around. Looks like it is off to a decent start. It was hard to navigate to select friends to add to my list because when I blow up the font, the list of friends are all in a frame that [...]
Smartpen
Last year I was able to see a demonstration of the Smartpen device. This thing is really cool because it records everything that is being said while you write. So that takes away the stress of missing an important point in a lecture or presentation. In addition to recording your notes, you can hook the [...]
Assistive Technology
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