The following information came from the POD (Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education) listserver. The information is concerned with the question of disability and webpage access and has two sections.
Recently, a number of different events have combined to bring to my attention the importance of remembering disability access issues when constructing Web sites. Happily, I live in the town were much of the important work in making the world of computers accessible to those with various kinds of (often quite severe) disabilities is being done. And several years ago, I looked into this quite a bit, as I was writing a feature story for a magazine on it.
The software that assists the disabled (which is now included in Windows, etc) was developed here at the TRACE Center at the University of Wisconsin. TRACE has now also published materials on constructing Web sites that are accessible. As many of you will be working on your Web sites over the summer, you may wish to look at these materials. The address for them is:
http://www.tracecenter.org/world/web
For those of you who are more interested in making your web sites, (and other educational software development efforts_ more accessible, you can also consult the Microsoft Accessiblility site : http://www.microsoft.com/enable
It contains some descriptions about our philosophy when it comes to making technology accessible to the widest cross-section of the population, and also, how these innovations can be leveraged by developers and end-users, such as yourselves, to enhance teaching and learning.
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