Last week Sheryl Burgstahler, the founding Director of DO-IT*/Accessible Technology Services and Outreach at the University of Washington was on campus promoting Universal Design. (if interested you can listen to her talk available here) Universal Design is a concept from … Continue reading A few minutes to learn something cool … Universal Design
While most students were off exploring the world, or doing research in labs local and remote, a small, dedicated group of five students (Guin Mesh, Kyle Vu, Rebecca Regan, Richmond Mensah and Tai Warner) stayed at Swarthmore to work on … Continue reading Summer 2018 SPEED Projects
Many people like to convert Word documents into PDF files for print consistency and to prevent document modification. Check your software versions Make sure you have the most recent version of Acrobat and Microsoft Office. If you are not sure … Continue reading Creating Accessible PDFs from Word
Across the world today, people are paying attention to what it means to be a person with a disability. As a technologist I’d like to suggest some simple tasks to help you learn about some of ways people use assistive technology to get around the web and/or their mobile devices. Say “goodbye” to your mouse Detach your mouse and try navigating using only your keyboard. The following keys can be used: Tab key: Navigates to most elements, usually links or buttons. If the website is built correctly you should see an outline around each element as to tab to it. … Continue reading Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Math, visual impairment and linearity Confessions Let me say right off the bat, I am not a ‘math person’. I find it interesting, particularly in the context of math as language, but I really don’t “get” it. Nor do I … Continue reading Math Sounds
Automatically Creating Caption Files from YouTube Videos Many may not know, but YouTube has a speech-to-text feature that will auto-caption your videos for you! Providing closed captions for your videos is incredibly important not just for students with hearing difficulties … Continue reading Auto-Captioning Videos in YouTube
