Monthly Archive: September 2012

Sep 20

Major new project on Accessibility and the Digital Humanities: BrailleSC

Profhacker today has an excellent post on accessibility issues and the digital humanities. It is an excellent post and worth a read by all who are interested in the intersection of DH and accessibility. I’m very intrigued, also, by the new project they announce, which is in partnership with WordPress For the 2012-2013 academic year, …

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Sep 18

Announcing a New Partner: Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario

We are pleased to announce that we are partnering with Citizens With Disabilites – Ontario to provide the accessible online conferencing system on October 27th. CWDO “actively promotes the rights, freedoms and responsibilities of persons with disabilities through community development, social action, and member support and referral.  [Their] primary activity is public education and awareness …

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Sep 18

Registration Period Open Until October 20th

In the interests of making this event as accessible as possible, and to give everyone who wants to the chance to participate, we’re going to keep the registration open until one week before the day. The registration period is open until the 20th, and we hope to have you with us on the 27th!

Sep 16

osmand accessibility plugins

It’s an Android app that uses OpenStreetmap format data. So basically an off line electronic map with routing etc. In theory it can use accessibility plug ins. Is any one aware of such a plug in? Thanks John Update 2012/9/17 Apparently a blind person has written a plug in for the blind and is using …

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Sep 16

Sensory Maps by Kate McLean

Recently on Twitter I saw links to sensory maps by Kate McLean. These put me in mind of Kevin Lynch’s work in the 1960s on the ways urbanites imagined their spaces. McLean’s work is beautiful, and draws attention to alternative ways of understanding the way spaces work. She’s also done work on tactile mapping, representing …

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Sep 14

Interactive Fiction & Dyslexia

Just seen on Twitter: Interactive stories motivate dyslexics to read more than the same story non-interactively. #IVA2012 update on this: ow.ly/1OvnW9 — Noah Wardrip-Fruin (@noahwf) September 14, 2012 Abstract: To overcome their substantial barriers to fluent reading, students with dyslexia need to be enticed to read more, and to read texts with carefully controlled lexical …

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Sep 13

The Economist on Disability, Design, and Future Technology: You, Robot?

The Technology Quarterly of The Economist has a thought provoking article about the legal, ethical, and moral implications of the latest advances in what could be called ‘cyborg’ systems. Consider this quote by Hugh Herr: [Herr] described disabilities as conditions that persist “because of poor technology” and made the bold claim that during the 21st …

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Sep 11

Game Accessibility Guidelines

We came across the ‘Game Accessibility Guidelines‘ website this afternoon. Like a good video game, it has recommendations for basic, intermediate, and advanced actions one can do to ensure the accessibility of a video game.  The site is ” a collaborative effort between a group of studios, specialists and academics, to produce a straightforward developer …

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