Source: For Apple, this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education … In many ways, education and accessibility beautifully overlap,” Sarah Herrlinger, Apple’s Senior Director of Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives, said to me. “For us, the concept of differentiated learning and how the accessibility tools that we build in [to theContinue reading “For Apple, this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is all about education | TechCrunch”
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Advocate Moves Needle on Website Accessibility – Education Week
Every year, thousands of complaints flow into the office tasked with investigating disability discrimination for the U.S. Department of Education. This year, Marcie Lipsitt, a special education advocate from Michigan, has been responsible for about 500 of those complaints—and counting. Lipsitt’s focus is on the websites of school districts and other educational institutions, which sheContinue reading “Advocate Moves Needle on Website Accessibility – Education Week”
Effectively including accessibility into web developer training – Karl Groves
Today, I’d like to follow “Your computer school sucks” with some actual guidance for web developer training schools and bootcamps. Do not treat accessibility as its own topic A few years ago, I wrote a series of blog posts under the theme Selling Accessibility. The content for many of those posts was driven by interviewsContinue reading “Effectively including accessibility into web developer training – Karl Groves”
EdTech and the accessibility paradox | Christensen Institute
Summer Cox is an exceptional student education coordinator at Henry County Public Schools in Georgia. For a number of years, her district has pursued personalized learning. That’s given Cox a front seat to a new movement in education, which calls for recreating classrooms in a manner that supports learning for each child. Cox has aContinue reading “EdTech and the accessibility paradox | Christensen Institute”
Edtech podcast Episode 18 – Karla Drops Accessibility Knowledge
In this episode, Ricky and Matt welcome Karla Kmetz Morris to the show to speak about accessibility and give her perspective and she also shares great resources that can help us all understand accessibility in a deeper way. We also discuss the news of the week, as always, including Google’s plan to bring VR intoContinue reading “Edtech podcast Episode 18 – Karla Drops Accessibility Knowledge”
Accessibility and education | Voices | Saudi Gazette
“We send people to the moon, to space but the majority of children with disabilities still do not go to school and it is the 21st Century.” These words were from Gopal Mitra, an officer in UNICEF’s inclusive education program. And this was how he started his speech at the Forum hosted by the GlobalContinue reading “Accessibility and education | Voices | Saudi Gazette”
Lifekludger on ABC Radio – Second life, disability & education
A couple months back I was contacted to see if I could give some input for an ABC Radio National program segment on Second life, disability and education. My input was focused around barriers to access to technology generally and from my Lifekludger perspective. Also touched on the importance of technology forContinue reading “Lifekludger on ABC Radio – Second life, disability & education”
5 Dangerous Things Kids should do
Dangerous Things Kids should do photo by Leo Reynolds 1. play with fire 2. own a pocket knife 3. throw a spear 4. de-construct appliances 5. break the DMCA (digital millennium copyright act) [5.5 drive a car] Confused? Then watch this video from TED. You may just be able to impart some realContinue reading “5 Dangerous Things Kids should do”
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