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I enjoyed Apple's Relay advertisement showcasing paralympic athletes and athletes without disabilities competing. The advertisement reflects the joy of competition and the freedom of attaining a state of flow. We all enjoy those feelings at our core. I also appreciate how their video player seamlessly supports audio descriptions, which is something YouTube still does not support. #accessibility

 

This article explores common web accessibility barriers that are negatively impacting people with disabilities. These barriers can prevent people with disabilities from entering the workforce. The article's author is helping to conduct a study to help people who are blind or have low vision use assistive technology to overcome these barriers and attain employment. It will be interesting to learn of the study's results hopefully in 2025. #accessibility

 

This article highlights how AI is transforming instructional design. A lot of the ideas brought up in the article like AI providing personalized or adaptive learning, tutoring, gamification, and AI-enhanced assessments can benefit students with learning disabilities or who are neurodiverse. As someone with ADHD receiving immediate feedback and lessons that use a variety of mediums to convey key concepts can help me stay engaged. #accessibility

 

This website has a lot of helpful information about the ADA. I found this research article interesting because it summarizes the need for accessible online classes and how students in K-12 are more likely to request accommodations than in college. #accessibility

 

The W3C Accessibility Principles page breaks down the different principles of web accessibility. This includes perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. They also link to many helpful examples and design personas, which can help you consider a variety of users. hashtag #accessibility

 

AB1757 is the California law focused on requiring vendors to ensure that the websites they create for clients are accessible. If the website is not accessible the vendor would be liable. It has passed the first chamber and is currently in second committee review. #accessibility

 

This article provides some better questions to ask instead of "Is this accessible?" It is important to consider the standard you're using to define "accessible" like WCAG 2.1. Also, looking at a VPAT or testing the platform using assistive technology. #accessibility

 

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth & Kevin Andrews provide a demo of inaccessible and accessible forms. They highlight the importance of labels for form elements and the impact they have on web accessibility. hashtag#accessibility

 

The closure of the Access Text Network earlier this year has made it more difficult for higher education disability offices to provide accessible books. Luckily, the University of Virginia has launched Educational Materials Made Accessible (EMMA), which is trying to become a replacement.

 

Articulate Rise has now added support for multiple headings beyond H3. Check out the article for more details.

 

This article highlights the work Tufts student Ryan Beckett is doing developing different assistive technology products like a one-handed kitchen cutting board. #accessibility

 

Assistive technology is much broader than just screen reading software. This article reminds us of the wide array of assistive technologies people use every day. This is also why it is important to include people with different disabilities when testing a website or application. You may find that something that works with a screen reader does not work when using voice control. #accessibility

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Assistive technology companies like EyeGaze charge a lot for their products. This is because there is a lot of tech to ensure that it works accurately and is compatible with third party applications. Hopefully, Apple can lower the costs in the future for people with disabilities who use eye tracking technology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Arizona State University is the first higher education institution to have a partnership with OpenAI. I think this is related to that deal. I don't know how long it will stay free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ableist is defined as discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities, especially physical disabilities. Supporting people of all different races and trying to end systemic racism would be about being anti-racist. Feminism is a little too broad for me to define but it would probably align with providing men and women equal rights. The goal is to unite people not divide. The issue is that most of the web is inaccessible and cannot be accessed by people with disabilities. Excluding a group of people from a building because of their gender, race, or disability is against the law. Yet, people with disabilities are excluded or lack access to information on publicly available websites each day. This type of change requires people to be anti-ableist and to do the work necessary to make their website accessible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, most academic journals still publish only PDFs. I couldn't find an HTML version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thank you for sharing. Glad it is helpful 😀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

100% agree. This is why adding short but descriptive audio prompts for everything is very important. In this example they forget to add an audio prompt for when an object is grabbed, which immediately became an accessibility barrier. In addition, creating an intuitive way to navigate the audio prompts similar to screen reader navigation is needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can print your own paper if you have an inkjet printer. I'm not sure how well it works. Most users buy their journals. The journals make it easier to store your notes and you can group them by subject.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is a demo video I made a while back on how to use the original Echo Smartpen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No it isn’t. Most of the webinars from well known vendors (Deque University, Level Access, 3 Play Media) are very focused on the topic. They may spam your email with some product stuff but you can always unsubscribe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This study on Zoom camera use found that students turn off their cameras because of personal appearance, people being in the background, and slow internet connection. A Stanford study identified constant camera use as a cause for Zoom fatigue and recommended audio-only breaks. Educause on equitable camera use highlights best practices at the end of the article like a flexible policy, using icebreakers, and providing alternatives. Hopefully, these articles are helpful and might lead to your institution creating a more flexible policy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! Your answer is very helpful. I hope to promote the developers creating accessibilty tools for the fediverse in the future. If you know of any please share. I'm quite busy at the moment but I'd like to explore developing accessibility tools for the platform when I get more time down the road too.

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