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- Answer: Unusual sports?The odd and unusual are fun to search for! As we noticed last week, there are lots of fascinating sporting (if you use that term loosely) events in the world, many of which deserve a bit of background research. I love these kinds of SearchResearch Challenges because I always learn a few fascinating things along the way. These slightly whacky events are pe […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (6/5/19): Unusual sports? There are plenty of amazing sports... ... many of which strike me as pretty unusual. There's the annual wife-carrying competition (multiple locations), an international "worm charming" championship in Chesire (UK), and the locally well-known "kinetic sculpture race" in which contestants race their home-made (and wonderfully whacky) […]
- Answer: Why do I hear a trumpet? The trumpet shall sound! This week's Challenge was a fun one, and tests your ability to sleuth out the backstory. I was walking down the street when I heard an odd trumpet tune being played. It was a surprising tune--not quite a melody, but something puzzling and a little odd. Here's the picture I snapped as I listened to the trumpet call. (And […]
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Category Archives: Print Disability
That All May Read: What IS a print disability? An answer + resources
Libraries are commonly understood to be the repositories of the human experience, storehouses which take that human experience and, from it, create opportunities for library consumers to “learn, grow, and know”. But what if someone you know has a print … Continue reading
Hathi Trust, Digitization, and Accessibility for PWD
I’ve been sporadically following the Hathi Trust Fair Use and digitization brouhaha, and it leaves me wondering if and/or how it will affect equal Accessibility for those with print disabilities re: the cultural record. Digitization to me means an increase … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Information Science, Print Disability
Tagged digitization, Hathi Trust
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Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012
From Network World: Look, touch and feel: How your mobile interface will morph in 2012. Touch, waving, voice all to become more prevalent mobile user interfaces: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/122111-outlook-mobile-interface-254225.html I’m excited by some of these features in this article; I current use the … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Computers and Internet, Print Disability
Tagged emerging technology, mobile
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Touch Graphics Inc. & Intrepid Museum: Multi-Sensory Museum Guide (from Library & Museum Accessiblity LinkedIn Group)
Manhattan’s Intrepid Museum Complex, which houses a tour-able aircraft carrier, submarine, and supersonic airliner, have used emerging technology, created by Touch Graphics Inc., to help people with sight disabilities have a more-immersive experience with the artifacts. On each floor, their “Talking Tactile Pen”, used in conjunction … Continue reading
Infocamp Seattle
This past weekend I attended Infocamp Seattle, an “unconference” presented by ASIS&T and the UW’s ischool. An “unconference” simply means that there are no planned events throughout the day – the participants are the presenters. Topics ranged from UX to … Continue reading
Posted in Information Science, Print Disability
Tagged accessibility, ASIS&T, Infocamp, print disability, UW ischool, WTBBL
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What IS a print disability? An answer + resources
As of today, according to http://www.ifla.org/en/lpd, it’s stated that only 5% of the world’s published information is fully accessible to persons with a print disability; it’s my career goal to help increase that percentage as much as I can. Some people … Continue reading
