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- How WhatsApp, Signal & Co. Threaten Privacy
- Insights Into Dreams and What They Say About Us
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- Answer: Your everyday fact-checking? What do you do?We all need some basic fact-checking skills... This week's Challenge was about what you do in your personal fact-checking. How often do you check? How do you check? What do you check? A wave of assertions comes at you every day.Which are correct? Which ones do you check? How do you check? I gave the example of reading that over 1 million acres of Ca […]
- A few wildfire monitoring and satellite image sites (Sept 12, 2020) People keep asking me: Dan, what's the best site to monitor the fires in California? Or a variation on that: What's the best site to get satellite images of fires in the West? Without going into all the detail, here's my list of favorite sites, and a brief explanation about what each has that's special. 1. Zoom.earth – excellent near- […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (9/9/20): Your everyday fact-checking? What do you do? In the swirl of current news and political tempests, we all need some basic fact-checking skills... ... and I'm curious about what you do to exercise the ability to do some basic checks on the things you read. A wave of assertions comes at you every day. Which are correct? Which ones do you check? How do you check? For instance, I recently read an arti […]
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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
