Assistive Technologies
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Add free, open Assistive Technologies courses | Web Site | Organization (if any) | Degree / Non-degree | Instructor's Name | Location | Other Info | Language | Tags |
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Autism Theory and Technology | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/media-arts-and-sciences/mas-962-autism-theory-and-technology-spring-2007/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Cynthia Breazeal, Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Prof. Rosalind W. Picard, Prof. Sherry Turkle | Browser | Start anytime | English | Graduate |
Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-Based Learning Experiment | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/special-programs/sp-693-gender-race-and-the-complexities-of-science-and-technology-a-problem-based-learning-experiment-spring-2009/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Peter Taylor, Prof. Anne Fausto-Sterling | Browser | Start anytime | English | Graduate |
Relational Machines | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/media-arts-and-sciences/mas-965-relational-machines-spring-2005/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Cynthia Breazeal | Browser | Start anytime | English | Graduate |
Course's Name | http:// | non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English |
WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources
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.
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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.
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Barence. 2012. Adjusting Your PC Set-Up To Cope With Sudden Sight Loss. June 14. hardware.slashdot.org
Au, Wagner James. 2013. Woman with Parkinson's Reports Significant Physical Recovery After Using Second Life - Academics Researching. February 7. New World Notes.
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.
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
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Brewer, Judy. 2011. http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/
Gentle Heron in Second Life
Lazar, Jonathan. 2011. http://triton.towson.edu/%7Ejlazar/
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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. Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really. TEDMED 2012.
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.
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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/
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Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net
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