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- Adaptive Technology for the Internet : Making Electronic Resources
Accessible to All is a handbook
that shows how to carry out this mandate imposed upon them by the Americans
With Disabilities Act and covers such electronic technologies as screen
readers, Braille screens, voice recognition systems, hearing assistance
devices, and HTML coding for accessability.
- Adaptive
Sports Center in Crested Butte,Colorado. - summer and winter
outdoor recreational opportunities
- The Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines are part of a series of accessibility guidelines published
by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative.
The series also includes the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
and the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines.
- Braille
with Pokadot
Pokadot is a six-key direct keyboard input braille transcription program
for sighted braille transcribers that has been approved by the National
Braille Association. You can download it for free from this web
site.
- Discovery
Blind Sports Home Page
- Accessible Games from
Jokerdog.com are Windows 95/98 games written specifically for the
blind. At this time, the games are designed to interface directly to
JAWS For Windows (JFW) version 3.3 or higher games include: Battleship,
Memory, Simon, Yahtzee, Freecell
- Latest Home Video Releases in Descriptive Video (DVS)
- Pokadot is a six-key direct keyboard input
braille transcription program for sighted braille transcribers that
has been approved by the National Braille Association. You can download
it for free from this web site.
- Quick Info:
Software for blind and visually impaired people
- Selection of Books on Blindness
available at Amazon.com
- Visual Basic Tutorial
for blind or visually impaired programmers. This online tutorial is
designed for beginners who want to learn how to program in Visual Basic.
- World
Database - Schools for the Blind
- The Worldwide Virtual
Community of the Disabled
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- The braille-books list
is a moderated email list to announce the availability of newly-brailled
leisure-reading books produced according to BANA standards for braille readers
in the U.S.
Disabilities
and the Disabled
- EASI:
Equal Access to Software and Information
- EASI
Roundtable Discussions A Weekly Discussion
Between Users and Creators of Information Technology focusing on the Need
for Universal Access to the Information Age. These 30-minute roundtable
discussions will be webcast on Thursday nights at 9 PM Eastern, 8 Central,
7 Mountain and 6 Pacific time.
- EASI Online Workshops:
- Join the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Campaign
for Better Web Design
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- HoTMetaL
4.0: Accessible HTML Authoring System:
Recently, SoftQuad announced the release of version 4.0 of
their HoTMetaL HTML authoring package. For the first time in a commercial
HTML authoring tool, this package includes features to encourage and aid
Web authors in the production of accessible HTML documents.
- Optical Braille
Recognition (Scanning braille-to-text) is a software sold by Sighted
Electronics
- Verval View of Word 2000 is now available on disk,
in print, large print and in Grade 2 braille. A complete table of contents
and sample chapters are available upon request via email. Send an email
request to comments@wyfiwyg.com
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VICUG
NYC meets
on the second Tuesday of every month in the Auditorium of the TAB/Selis Manor
building, which is located at 135 West Twenty-third Street, between Sixth and
Seventh Avenues, in New York City. If you have any questions about subway lines
and bus stops in the vicinity of Selis Manor, please call The Associated Blind
at (212) 766-6800 between 9am and 4:30pm, or consult the hypertextualized directions
to the TAB/Selis Manor building located at:
http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/directions.html
For more information about VICUG NYC and its activities, please call the VICUG
NYC Hotline at (212) 714-4967, or visit the VICUG NYC web site, which is located
at:
http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/
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Accessible Web Design Graphic: This graphic is a globe marked with a grid
and tilts at an angle. A keyhole is cut into its surface.
National Center for Accessible
Media Web Access Symbol
This page is BOBBY approved.
Comments and/or suggestions on this site can be addressed
to:
John Hernandez, Media Coordinator
Last updated February 2000
http://www.nyise.org/whatsnew.htm
