Friday, April 3, 2009
Web Accessibility - Podcast Link
Paul McIntyre, SCC student, is on several shared governance committees on campus. Just today he introduced me to a podcast site targeted at blind users - http://blindcooltech.com and I've subscribed to it in iTunes.
The website also allows episodes to be played in your web browser. Here are some teaching related highlights:
TV And Courses Accessibility
8/23/2008 Michelle Dyer educates with the hope of drumming up some positive action, on the subject of accessibility to TV for blind consumers and accessibility to online college courses as it relates to blind students. 4.9 MB
Accessible Math
3/27/2006 John Gardner of ViewPlus Technologies is joined by Neal Soiffer of Design Science and Masakazu Suzuki of Kyushu University in this panel discussion entitled Emerging Computer Technologies for Accessible Math. This panel presents technologies and software that make mathematical documents accessible to people with print disabilities and explores The state-of-the-are for reading, writing, and manipulating math on a computer. 42.2 MB
Free Book Share Accounts For US Students
7/31/2008 Jose Tamayo received a free bookshare.org account as a blind U. S. student through a grant from the Department of Education, and he explains how to qualify, apply, and use this service that contains over 30,000 books in its collection. 23.0 MB
Dspeech
4/22/2008 Michael Michaelson discusses this fast, high quality text-to-speech engine and associated programs. http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/ 40.8 MB
Adobe 7
5/17/2007 Marrisa Manzino demonstrates the auto read feature in this version of the popular software to read PDF documents. 43.4 MB
Global Culture Awareness
11/13/2006 Mary Emerson (retired IBM employee) emphasizes the importance of accommodating individual cultural differences among people both in our business and personal lives. 8.3 MB
Podcast Publishing
Part 2 6/7/2006 Larry Skutchan describes the steps you need to publish your own podcast. He begins with the content and the media and finishes up the discussion with a description of many of the popular methods for getting that content syndicated. This is the 2nd part of a presentation for Talking Communities on June 19, 2006 at 8:00 PM EDT. 35.3 MB
Finding And Listening To Podcasts
Part 1 6/7/2006 Larry Skutchan discusses what makes a podcast a podcast, different types of podcasts, where to find them, and how to try them out before installing any software. He then takes you through the process of installing a podcatching program and describes the process of finding feeds, subscribing to feeds, deleting feeds, and setting the schedule. This is part of a presentation for www.talkingcommunities.com on June 19, 2006 at 8:00 PM EDT. 31.4 MB
File Organization
5/31/2006 Monica Willyard presents a system she uses that allows her to access almost every file she needs in a matter of seconds, even if she doesn't remember the exact file name.
Podcasting Interpretation
5/19/2006 Sarah Alawami reflects about the fact that podcasting-'s audio nature is more appealing to blind people than web blogs are. 7.0 MB
The website also allows episodes to be played in your web browser. Here are some teaching related highlights:
TV And Courses Accessibility
8/23/2008 Michelle Dyer educates with the hope of drumming up some positive action, on the subject of accessibility to TV for blind consumers and accessibility to online college courses as it relates to blind students. 4.9 MB
Accessible Math
3/27/2006 John Gardner of ViewPlus Technologies is joined by Neal Soiffer of Design Science and Masakazu Suzuki of Kyushu University in this panel discussion entitled Emerging Computer Technologies for Accessible Math. This panel presents technologies and software that make mathematical documents accessible to people with print disabilities and explores The state-of-the-are for reading, writing, and manipulating math on a computer. 42.2 MB
Free Book Share Accounts For US Students
7/31/2008 Jose Tamayo received a free bookshare.org account as a blind U. S. student through a grant from the Department of Education, and he explains how to qualify, apply, and use this service that contains over 30,000 books in its collection. 23.0 MB
Dspeech
4/22/2008 Michael Michaelson discusses this fast, high quality text-to-speech engine and associated programs. http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/ 40.8 MB
Adobe 7
5/17/2007 Marrisa Manzino demonstrates the auto read feature in this version of the popular software to read PDF documents. 43.4 MB
Global Culture Awareness
11/13/2006 Mary Emerson (retired IBM employee) emphasizes the importance of accommodating individual cultural differences among people both in our business and personal lives. 8.3 MB
Podcast Publishing
Part 2 6/7/2006 Larry Skutchan describes the steps you need to publish your own podcast. He begins with the content and the media and finishes up the discussion with a description of many of the popular methods for getting that content syndicated. This is the 2nd part of a presentation for Talking Communities on June 19, 2006 at 8:00 PM EDT. 35.3 MB
Finding And Listening To Podcasts
Part 1 6/7/2006 Larry Skutchan discusses what makes a podcast a podcast, different types of podcasts, where to find them, and how to try them out before installing any software. He then takes you through the process of installing a podcatching program and describes the process of finding feeds, subscribing to feeds, deleting feeds, and setting the schedule. This is part of a presentation for www.talkingcommunities.com on June 19, 2006 at 8:00 PM EDT. 31.4 MB
File Organization
5/31/2006 Monica Willyard presents a system she uses that allows her to access almost every file she needs in a matter of seconds, even if she doesn't remember the exact file name.
Podcasting Interpretation
5/19/2006 Sarah Alawami reflects about the fact that podcasting-'s audio nature is more appealing to blind people than web blogs are. 7.0 MB
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