Accessibility for those with disabilities is not a new idea, although it’s far from being a normative part of many planning processes (but it should…
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We’re all generally aware that websites – and perhaps library websites especially – should be accessible to people with impaired vision. One aspect of that…
OPLIN 4cast #487: Section 508
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No, it’s not the title of a sci-fi novel. Section 508 is a 1986 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, mandating that information technologies…
OPLIN 4cast #485: Reading the pictures
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Many things in life are not easy for blind people, and the internet is certainly one of those things. Screen reader software has never been…
OPLIN 4cast #355: The BARD goes mobile
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A couple of weeks ago, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) released the BARD mobile app for iOS devices, with…
OPLIN 4Cast #302: OpenDyslexic
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We’d venture a guess that not many librarians give a great deal of thought to fonts, even though a typeface is such an integral part…