Assistive Technologies



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where anyone can teach or take a class or course


 * Add or take a free, open Assistive Technologies course.

Select Courses

 * Add free, open Assistive Technologies courses below.

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

Select Libraries
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

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

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

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

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).

Thatcher, Jim. 2009. Skip Navigation Links (Updated 6/19/2009).

W3 Markup Validation Service. 2011. http://validator.w3.org/ (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).

WebAIM. 2011. http://webaim.org/

World University and School Links
Assistive Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assistive_Technologies

Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Media Arts and Sciences: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Arts_and_Sciences

Media Lab at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Media_Lab_at_World_University_and_School

Mobile Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Mobile_Technologies

Robotics: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics

Virtual Worlds: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Virtual_Worlds

Wireless Technologies: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Wireless_Technologies

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

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): http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School.

Careers
Finding / creating a job you really love: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Finding_/_creating_a_job_you_really_love

WUaS Job hunting: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Job_hunting

Counseling
Counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Counseling

Digital To Do
Android

Broadcast to radio frequency

Create EMail group for page

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

Print

Recommend

Send to phone

Translate

Videophone

In Google Earth
Google Earth.

In Virtual World
ScienceSim. 2011. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php. Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

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

Travel to this virtual island to learn building:

Learning Networking
Teach and Learn using free Social Bookmarking software to identify what courses, etc. you find edifying.

Academia.edu's World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.academia.edu/

Delicious.com's World University and School - http://www.delicious.com/WorldUniversityandSchool

Digg.com's World University and School - http://digg.com/worlduniversityandschool

Facebook.com's World University and School - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 (This group may be archived).

Google + - worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com (Scott MacLeod) - https://plus.google.com/115890623333932577910/

Google Profiles World University and School - https://profiles.google.com/WorldUniversityAndSchool

Google Groups' World University and School - http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School

Like

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Redditt.com's World University and School - http://www.reddit.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/

Tribe.net's World University and School - http://tribes.tribe.net/worlduniversityandschool

Twitter.com's World University and School - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

World University & School subject group

World University & School Share This

Yahoo Groups' World University and School: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlduniversityandschool/

TV-Live Broadcasting
Broadcast to television

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

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

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

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

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

Google Video Conferencing - in Gmail

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

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

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

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

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

WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University

Courses: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses

Subjects: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects

Languages: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages

Library Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources

Nation States: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States

You at World University: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/You_at_World_University

Educational Software: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software

Museums: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums

Research: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Research

Hardware Resource Possibilities: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities

World University Foundation: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation

World University Agriculture School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Agriculture_School

World University Law School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Law_School

World University Medical School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School

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