Horizon Report, Part 2
A group of six faculty and staff gathered in the CTL last Friday to consider the 2012 Horizon report (full report is at: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2012.pdf). The first point noted was that […]
accessibility
BCC Summer Institute IV: Universal Design & Online Accessibility Resources
The CTL hosted the Fourth Title III Summer Institute on Aug 23-24 on campus. Twenty-one BCC faculty and staff and one guest from STCC attended the session. Our workshop leader […]
Dartmouth’s Latest Accessibility Efforts
A quick read of the action steps from their Accessibility committee: – Hiring an IT Accessibility coordinator – Captioning Youtube and other video materials – Routinely running accessibility checks on […]
Announcement: BCC Summer Institute on Universal Design & Online Accessibility
The Fourth Annual BCC Title III Summer Institute: Universal Design & Online Accessibility Led by Dr. Steve Fadden, Director, Landmark College Institute for Research and Training Berkshire Community College Campus […]
Clark Shah-Nelsons Ed Tech Tips » YouTube’s Closed Captioning: Rocks!
this blog post offers insight into how to make your Youtube clips accessible. Very useful! http://www.clarkshahnelson.com/blog/?p=102
What Will It Take to Sustain Online Accessibility?
Once again, we are warned that the very technologies that offer so much to students (low cost, multiple platform support, social media interfaces) have not been made fully accessible. Please […]
WebAIM posts screen reader user survey
The findings are below. Items of note for BCC: Mobile readers are growing at a similar pace to every other mobile usage – which calls out for a mobile strategy […]
Audio Feed for Your Blog!
I am piloting the audio feed service from odiogo.com. This can provide enhanced accessibility for visually impaired readers through a feed service that “reads” each of your posts. You can […]
Web accessibility study
Note the key points found that promote accessibility in this 2010 study of website accessibility: – Inclusion of a “skip navigation” link – Keyboard-accessible links (no hover menus) – Accessible […]
Justice Department Weighs Putting Web Sites Under Disability Rules – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The ADA was signed in 1990, prior to the proliferation of the Internet. A proposed updating of the ADA Act may have implications for esp. public colleges. This is currently […]
