Teach Access, an initiative started in 2016 to support “the teaching of accessible technology design and development,” will be giving away 20 awards this summer to faculty or instructional staff at U.S.-based institutions. The awards of $5,000 will be given to teachers to include digital accessibility in their Fall 2018-Spring 2019 curriculums.
In 2016, Facebook unveiled their AI (artificial intelligence) technology, which attempts to automatically describe images to benefit people who are blind or visually impaired. While we are pretty excited about its potential, it’s important to understand where this technology might be helpful, and what its limitations are.
One of the most fundamental tasks when making a website accessible is ensuring that all of your images are also accessible to people who can’t see them.
In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we are excited to be offering FREE live user website assessments to non-profit organizations on Thursday, May 17 (GAAD), from 3-6 p.m.!
Accessible360 periodically showcases a digital superuser with personal insights into the digital landscape and assistive technology. By getting to know them, we learn more about the importance of digital accessibility, borrow their knowledge, and gain insights into important personal preferences.
Katherine Schneider, Disability Rights Activist Would you tell us a little about yourself? I am a retired clinical psychologist. I am also an activist and author. What are a couple of your favorite websites or mobile apps?
Accessible360 periodically showcases a digital superuser with personal insights into the digital landscape and assistive technology. By getting to know them, we learn more about the importance of digital accessibility, borrow their knowledge, and gain insights into important personal preferences.
Joe Carr, Adaptive Sports Athlete Would you tell us a little about yourself? I am a 14-year-old boy and am a freshman at Richfield High School. I have spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy.
Accessible360 periodically showcases a digital superuser with personal insights into the digital landscape and assistive technology. By getting to know them, we learn more about the importance of digital accessibility, borrow their knowledge, and gain insights into important personal preferences.
Mike S., Assistive Technology User What are a couple of your favorite websites or mobile apps? Why do you like them and what, if anything, makes them particularly accessible?
Like most people, I have always relied on my vision to help me navigate the internet. Being a sighted auditor for an internet accessibility company has been an eye-opening experience. It seems cliche to say I’ve taken the ability of sight for granted, but I never realized how true this statement was until I experienced web navigation from a non-sighted user’s perspective. Closing my eyes and listening to a web page being read to me by a screen reader was a slap in the face, and an especially important experience for someone like me, who is a budding software programmer.
Accessible360 periodically showcases a digital superuser with personal insights into the digital landscape and assistive technology. By getting to know them, we learn more about the importance of digital accessibility, borrow their knowledge, and gain insights into important personal preferences.
Anonymous Assistive Technology User What are a couple of your favorite websites or mobile apps? Why do you like them and what, if anything, makes them particularly accessible? I like Facebook, YouTube, Uber and Aira - they have easy-to-use instructions and provide easy user experiences for blind people using assistive technology.
Accessible360 periodically showcases a digital superuser with personal insights into the digital landscape and assistive technology. By getting to know them, we learn more about the importance of digital accessibility, borrow their knowledge, and gain insights into important personal preferences.
Michael Malver, Accessibility Engineer Would you tell us a little about yourself? I have been using adaptive technology for over 30 years to access computers. I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts in music therapy, and later obtained an AAS degree in computer programming.
In the past, persons with disabilities often required a wide array of different devices to accomplish various tasks, such as separate devices to identify colors, to identify paper currency, or to read paper documents. Each of these devices served a necessary and unique function, but were usually expensive, and - unless they chose to carry all of their devices around all the time – weren’t always readily available to the user. With the proliferation of mobile devices and accessibility apps, this is thankfully no longer the case.
