Mashups, Avatars, and Web 2'0, 3'0

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Mash-ups, Avatars, and Web 2.0, 3.0

• the growing challenges for accessible Distance
  Learning

Philip Voorhees Adaptive Technology Coordinator
-- APSU
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What is expected

• Why are we here?
• What do students with disabilities want?
• What OCR said in 1998 Paul Grossman
• Adding additional clarity to the meaning of
  "effective communication," OCR has held that the
  three basic components of effective communication
  are "timeliness of delivery, accuracy of the
  translation, and provision in a manner and medium
  appropriate to the significance of the message
  and the abilities of the individual with the
  disability. (OCR Docket No. 09-97-2145, January
  9, 1998)

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WAI/508 standards

• Challenges for Accessibility?
• A-Design, U-Design, Co-Design, Re-Design
• No-Design
• Strategic Planning
• Accessibility
• Usability Universal Design
• ADA review checklist
• RODP/Southwest Tennessee Community College
  Accessibility Checklist for D2L course
  development and related web pages --
  Accessibility Review
• WAI new standards
• Refreshed Accessibility Standards and Guidelines
  in Telecommunications and Electronic and
  Information Technology

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Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 ---

• Accessible LMS
• D2L, Blackboard
• Wikis
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikipediaAccessibili
  ty
• Blogs
• Can you make them accessible
• Social Networking
• http//mashable.com/

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Mash-up

• what is it?
• PLEF
• Five Free Mashup Tools You Should Know About
• how can it be used?
• World Explorers
• Housing Maps
• Accessibility
• Widgets the wild, wild web
• WAI-ARIA Overview
• IBM on Mashups Web 2.0 Mashup Accessibility CSUN
  2008

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Second Life

• Using virtual space for education -- Avatars
• Ongoing evolution of technology
• Accessibility techniques fall behind
• Second Life Engaging Virtual Campuses
• Accessibility
• Virtual Ability Island
• http//wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Accessibility
• Virtual guide dog for leading blind in Second
  Life
• http//virtualability.org/signup.aspx

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Thank You for Attending

• Keep It Simple Create Usable Environments
• Important links http//www.apsu.edu/disability/Pr
  esentations/Mash-ups-Avatars-and-Web20.ppt
• Accessible Universal Design
• Questions?