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Ideas
Develop a web html Validator for assistive technologies at the W3 - like this one: http://validator.w3.org/.

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

(WUaS's wiki, information technologies and criteria for this - informed by the WUaS academic journal subject matter - are developing, since you can already publish your article at http://www.academia.edu).

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts

Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/

Select Communities, Email lists, etc.
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Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, Repositories, etc.
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Select Museums
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Select Programs, Applications, Languages, Software
ADDING OR IMPROVING A LANGUAGE. 2011. http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html (I believe it uses eSpeak as its voice engine. That project's site has a page on adding languages). SourceForge.

NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA). 2011. Welcome to the Home of NVDA. (free, open source screen reader for Windows). NVDA.

Select References
Au, Wagner James. 2013. Woman with Parkinson's Reports Significant Physical Recovery After Using Second Life - Academics Researching. February 7. New World Notes.

Barence. 2012. Adjusting Your PC Set-Up To Cope With Sudden Sight Loss. June 14. hardware.slashdot.org.

Boss, Suzie. 2012. Accessible Images: An open source web application draws on the wisdom of the crowds to give the blind access to images. Fall. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

FCC Honors Innovators in Accessibility Communications Technologies. 2012. FCC Honors Innovators in Accessibility Communications Technologies. Washington DC: fcc.gov.

Lardinois, Frederic. 2013. Google Launches Sign Language Interpreter App For Hangouts, Adds Accessibility Features To Gmail, Drive And Chrome. March 1. techcrunch.com.

Parker, Robert. 2012. Yale journeys, Yale epiphanies. May 28. Los Angeles, CA: giftsofms.blogspot.com.

Shivetya. 2012. ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content. June 26. yro.slashdot.org.

hypnosec. 2012. Georgie: Smartphone For the Blind and Visually Impaired. July 15. hardware.slashdot.org.

Select Teachers with Email Addresses/Contact Information
Brewer, Judy. 2011. http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/.

Gentle Heron in Second Life.

Hourcade, Juan Pablo. 2013. Juan Pablo Hourcade. homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~hourcade/research.html.

Lazar, Jonathan. 2011. http://triton.towson.edu/%7Ejlazar/.

Select Video and Audio
3D-Printed Exoskeleton for Children. 2013. 3D-Printed Exoskeleton for Children. Youtube.com.

Herr, Hugh. 2013. DLD13 - Extreme Bionics. DLDConference.

Lazar, Jonathan. 2011. Preventing Societal Discrimination: Accessible Web Design for People with Disabilities. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Nicolelis, Miquel. 2013. [http://www.ted.com/talks/miguel_nicolelis_a_monkey_that_controls_a_robot_with_its_thoughts_no_really.html Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really]. TEDMED 2012.

Tek Robotic Mobilization Device. 2013. Robotic Mobilization Device. (see: wimp.com/newdevice/ and http://tekrmd.com/ and http://www.matiarobotics.com/). tekrmd.com/.

In German

German TV Live Show featuring LOGIN2LIFE. 2011. ON3 Südwild TV SHOW featuring LOGIN2LIFE. (http://on3.de/element/11928/on3-suedwild-vom-18-bis-21-oktober-2011-graz#/element/12006/on3-suedwild-aus-graz-die-sendung-vom-freitag). ON3 Südwild.

Select Websites
Thatcher, Jim. 2011. Side by Side WCAG vs. 508. (The intention here is to compare the Priority 1 Web Content Accessibility checkpoints with the Section 508 Web Accessibility standards). jimthatcher.com/sidebyside.htm.

Thatcher, Jim. 2009. Skip Navigation Links (Updated 6/19/2009). jimthatcher.com/skipnav.htm.

W3 Markup Validation Service. 2011. W3 Markup Validation Service. (This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available). validator.w3.org/.

WebAIM. 2011. WebAIM. webaim.org/.

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Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise
Ask a question in a specific discipline, or find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.

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with educational electronics, as well; with musical instruments; value pricing ... 2% below market, consistently; available via mail and electronically;

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)
Join the World University and School Google + Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/.

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Counseling
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Coordinates
... in a virtual world

Credits
Many thanks to each of you!

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Digital To Do
Android

Brainwave device / Headset

Broadcast to radio frequency

Broadcast to TV

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

MIT OCW Mirror Site Instructions: http://ocw.mit.edu/about/mirror-site-program/mirror-site-instructions/

Print

Publish to DVD

Recommend

Send to phone

Tablets

Translate

Videophone

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In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
3D Learn. 2013. http://www.learningin3d.info/

Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/

Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/

Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net

Edusim. 2013. http://edusim3d.com/

Gifted Kids.ie. 2013. http://www.giftedkids.ie/daynuv.html

ISTE – SIGMS. 2013. http://sigms.iste.wikispaces.net/secondlifeplayground2010

Open Cobalt. 2013. http://www.opencobalt.org/

OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)

Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet and http://www.opencroquet.org/

Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/

Primary Games. 2013. http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/virtualworlds.php

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://atlantisremixed.org/ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

SimScience. 2012. http://simscience.org/

Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.

Unity3D. 2012. http://unity3d.com/

WiloStar3D. 2013. https://www.wilostar3d.com/

Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

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TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Google + Hangouts - https://plus.google.com/hangouts

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication
Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Free video conferencing

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Free, group video conferencing

AnyMeeting - http://anymeeting.com/homepage/

Google + Hangout - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin

Zoom.us - Cloud HD Video Meetings - http://zoom.us/

Universal Translator at WUaS
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Google Translate language:

Sugar Labs: Translation System language:

Region:

The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School
The "Universitian" Newspaper at World University and School

Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

Wikidata / Bots
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