About this Site
Mon, 04/06/2009 - 20:09 — ejp10This site is the Penn State new home for information on Web standards, usability and accessibility. Click the links below to learn more about what's on this site.
The content below this section are blog entries posted to this site, primarily about accessibility issues at this time.
- PSUWeb - the users group for developers, designers, writers, editors, and stakeholders. The Web Standards Users Group and the Usability Users Group have been combined in a single, more inclusive, group to include all issues relating to developing a high quality Web presence for Penn State.
See more information about group activities, including meeting times and special events. - Accessibility Guide
Helen Keller Day in Second Life
Fri, 06/26/2009 - 17:33 — ejp10The following message came from the Second Life Educators Listserv
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The 24-hour event PDT will be held all day Saturday, June 27 at the four
The Ye, Olde, Supporte, Faire sims. ((http://slurl.com/secondlife/Faire/20/222/38)
Linden Lab is collaborating with and assisting Virtual Helping Hands and a
coalition of community volunteers who are proud to announce Helen Keller
Day in Second Life. Helen Keller Day is a community-event exploring how and
why to employ, educate, entertain, and engage everyone through virtual worlds.
Kindle for an Accessible Education?
Tue, 06/16/2009 - 20:21 — mlb354With the release of the Kindle 2, Amazon has added new features and is promoting the Kindle’s use in the educational environment. The features and improvements may indicate some of this push is to get the reader in students’ hands. Features like highlighting and note taking seem to be more suited for the study environment than they are for the casual reader.
Walking Through An Accessibility Accomodation
Tue, 06/16/2009 - 19:51 — ejp10Bill Welsh from the Office of Disability Services (ODS) walked through how an accommodation request works. It wasn't quite what I expected.
1. Students requesting official accommodation must register with the Office of Disability Services....but not all students choose to do so (because they want to be more independent).
2. When ODS sends an accommodation letter to faculty, the accommodation is identified (e.g. a captioned video), but not the "condition" behind it - this is to maintain student privacy.
Captions in You Tube
Fri, 06/12/2009 - 13:05 — ejp10YouTube does support caption files (specifically the SubViewer/.sub and SubRip/.srt). You can find information about searching for captioned videos and reading captions at
http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about
More information about the specific caption format is at
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077
P.S. Pat just confirmed that Parity can create the correct caption format for YouTube.
Two Color Blindness Filters
Fri, 06/12/2009 - 13:01 — ejp10Iin my personal blog I wrote a about a Photoshop CS4 color blindness filter which lets you simulate how a color blind user might see an image.
