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
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

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

Publish my article in a WUaS journal in this discipline

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

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Brewer, Judy. 2011. http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/

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

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

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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In Google Earth

Google Earth.

In Virtual World

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

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

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

Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).

ScienceSim. 2012. 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. 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. unity3d.com/

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