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All Access Is your website accessible to consumers with disabilities? If not, you might be missing out on a valuable audience. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
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Locking Out the Disabled Office buildings have wheelchair ramps, TV has closed captions, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way. |
Information Today
May 9, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon Finally Begins Work to Make Kindles ADA-Compliant On May 1, 2013, ebook giant Amazon announced new accessibility features for the Kindle reading app, making it easier than ever for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries, read and interact with their books. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2010
Kristine Schachinger |
Universal Design: One Site to Rule Them All How semantically correct (X)HTML + CSS + accessibility = universal design. As someone who has been building websites for over 11 years, I can tell you the two areas that are the least understood and the most maligned are compliance and accessibility. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2002
Holly K. Grossetta Nardini |
Lessons for Librarians Working with Web Designers While working with a graphic design firm was successful and produced more attractive results than we could have achieved ourselves, it also presented challenges. The lessons we learned provide helpful guidance for other organizations that consider outsourcing Web design work... |
Information Today
December 10, 2009 |
ebrary Adds New Technology for People With Physical Disabilities Online library ebrary says it has added technology that significantly increases accessibility for people with physical disabilities. |
InternetNews
December 11, 2008
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W3C Upgrades Web Accessibility Standards The World Wide Web Consortium, which works on developing standards for the Web, has updated its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. |
Macworld
August 2003
Lisa Schmeiser |
Lift NN/g Guidelines by design gurus add value to web-site accessibility tool |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
In Brief The eScholarship Initiative... Scholnet and Cyclades: Extending the Role of Digital Libraries... Taking a Common View of Educational Metadata... The Electronic Privacy Information Center... Bobby: CAST's Free Public Service for Web Accessibility... etc. |
Information Today
February 19, 2007 |
Ex Libris Releases MetaLib Version 4.00 Ex Libris Group announced the general release of MetaLib version 4.00, which provides a new topic clustering navigation tool and a fully accessible user interface that complies with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. |
Information Today
August 13, 2007 |
EBSCO Publishing Improves Web Accessibility EBSCO Publishing has teamed with accessibility experts to make it easier to search EBSCOhost using screen readers and keyboard controls. |
Search Engine Watch
October 11, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Don't Ignore Accessibility While more search marketers are becoming aware of usability and accessibility concerns, the numbers are still very small. A new lawsuit filed in California has the potential to change that. |
InternetNews
September 27, 2006
Clint Boulton |
W3C Documents Development For The Disabled The World Wide Web Consortium today published documents to help developers create Web sites that are more easily accessible for people with disabilities. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013 |
In Brief and In the News The Value and Impact of the British Atmospheric Data Center... Reports on the 8th International Digital Curation Conference... NISO Publishes Maintenance Revisions of Dublin Core and SUSHI Standards... |
Inc.
February 2007
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Welcome! No, Not You American business moves fitfully toward website accessibility for the disabled. |
D-Lib
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Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2015 |
In Brief and In the News President Obama Announces Open eBooks and ConnectED Library Challenge... IMLS announces public request for comment and webinar on broadband barriers... Julie Todaro Wins 2016-2017 ALA Presidency... |
Information Today
July 3, 2008 |
Ex Libris Introduces Voyager 7.0 and EL Commons Ex Libris Group announced the general release of version 7.0 of the Company's Voyager integrated library system. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit... |
InternetNews
August 15, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Donates Code to Firefox IBM gives the Mozilla Foundation accessibility code to improve feature-rich pages. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2009
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Usability and SEM 101, Part 2 More tips on Web usability, SEO, behavioral design, and how Web accessibility factors in. |
InternetNews
July 8, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? The search leader is not currently user-friendly for the blind. MSN and Yahoo have better solutions, though if a user is both blind and deaf, it poses a problem. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009 |
In Brief Reflective learning for the net generation... The SKUA project: prototyping a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services... The Erewhon project: more comprehensive location-based services... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
July 22, 2008
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Usability and SEO More and more SEOs are becoming usability experts. Here's why. |
Information Today
October 11, 2010
George H. Pike |
President Obama Signs the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act Expanded access to smartphone and digital video programming is the goal of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, recently passed by Congress. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2003
White et al. |
Accessible Education Through Assistive Technology The implementation of assistive technology is dependent on the knowledge, skill and inventiveness of the teachers who use what they have learned from higher education, their teaching experiences, and their attendance at continuing education programs and in-service classes. |
Searcher
March 2011
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Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case. |
D-Lib
October 2000
John V. Lombardi |
Academic Libraries in a Digital Age Students increasingly see the library as mostly irrelevant, while faculty and librarians of a certain age cling to the security of an authoritative collection and familiar classification systems... |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2012
Smeltzer et al. |
Original Research: Interactions of People with Disabilities and Nursing Staff During Hospitalization Inadequate primary health care and screening have been identified as serious issues for people with disabilities, but little evidence exists on the nursing care of this population when hospitalized. |
Information Today
November 10, 2015
Nancy K. Herther |
Design Standards Take Federal Websites to New Levels of Usability In September 2015, the government released the U.S. Web Design Standards, which will be used for all official U.S. government websites. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2014
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Accessibility Litigation Is ignorance really bliss? The number of lawsuits filed against business owners based on violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act and Federal Housing Administration accessibility requirements grows every year. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2007
David Needle |
IBM Makes Software, Web, Accessibility Push Research finds accessibility rarely included in computer science curriculum. IBM announced an initiative to give teachers wider access to learning material about assistive technologies. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Lori Weir |
The Importance of Developing and Investing in Online Course Materials That Enrich the Classroom Experience for Special-Needs Students Students with disabilities may be using assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to access online course materials. When developing course materials, ask yourself how a student with a learning disability might perceive the tasks and information. |
Searcher
September 2002
Marylaine Block |
Doing it Right How some universities encourage the creation of prime research web sites |
Information Today
July 21, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink. |
Inc.
September 2005
Allen P. Roberts Jr. |
Broader Wheelchair Access Rules Proposed The Justice Department is mulling changes to the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the changes considered could affect every business in America. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004
Geoffry Fletcher |
Technology for All Students The White House recently released a report detailing the progress the administration has made in removing barriers to assistive technologies, giving people with disabilities full access to all aspects of American life. Few, if any, of these efforts have made it to the schools yet. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004 |
Accessible Web Publishing Educators, regardless of Web authoring experience, can create documents that comply with Section 508 and W3C accessibility standards. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
George R. Plosker |
Conducting User Surveys: An Ongoing Information Imperative Remaining relevant to users is critical to library survival. What better way both to ascertain what users desire and to inform them of capabilities they are unaware of or don't use? Practical tips and suggestions on how to go about doing such a survey |
D-Lib
June 2002
Eric Weig |
Kentuckiana The KYVL Kentuckiana Digital Library Project: Background and Current Status. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Google Has A $20 Million Plan To Beat Disabilities Around The World The Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities is a program out of the company's Google.org charitable division that will dole out $20 million in grants to nonprofits for ideas that can help address physical impairments among the world's population |
Search Engine Watch
November 30, 2006
Matt Bailey |
Making Search Accessible to Visually Impaired Users Until recently, the needs of visually impaired users wasn't a top priority for search engines. That's changed, but there are still issues that need to be resolved, according to people with vision challenges. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Kate Plourd |
Prepare to Be More Accommodating Big changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act could heap new costs on corporations starting this fall. |
D-Lib
November 2000
Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders... |
InternetNews
January 21, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Magnifies Talking Browser Increasing government regulation and aging Baby Boomers spark Big Blue's continued investment in its Home Page Reader, a browser to address the needs of blind, visually impaired or elderly people using the Internet. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Pools Accessibility Tools IBM wants to build a community around tools for those with disabilities or with the physical challenges brought on by age. |
