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- How One State Managed to Actually Write Rules on Facial Recognition
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- Drones Join Fight to Save New Zealand's Rarest Dolphin
- Bioinformatics Tool Accurately Tracks Synthetic DNA
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- SearchResearch Challenge (2/24/21): When did which colors signal gender?As endless gender recent reveal parties have shown us... ... these days, in the US at least, the colors of pink and blue have commonly-agreed upon gender meanings. Pink means female, blue means male. But as a friend asked recently, why? Or, as a way to figure out the why perhaps we can think about it this way: when did pink come to mean female and blue c […]
- Answer: Two difficult to find objects? That was fun! Last week I posed two Challenges, both of which I thought were fairly tough--but the SRS Regular Readers found it fairly straightforward. Kudos to you! (At the end I'll come back to why I found this difficult, and why I think you found them straightforward.) Here are the Challenges from last week: 1. In my reading I keep seeing refer […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (2/10/21): Two difficult to find objects?Every so often... ... in my work I'll search for something that takes a while to find. I save these for you! Here are two objects that I had to work a bit to find. In the process, I learned something about searching that I thought you'd enjoy. Can you find these as well? 1. In my reading I keep seeing references to a compilation of short stori […]
- SearchResearch Challenge (2/24/21): When did which colors signal gender?
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- Recommended debut Sci-Fi novel: “Lightless” by C. A. Higgins
- That All May Read: What IS a print disability? An answer + resources
- Ian Caldwell’s “The Fifth Gospel” — an excellent and riveting thriller
- “Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters” — another excellent YA adventure from Shannon Hale
- Book suggestions from TechRepublic — 7 Leadership titles to read in 2015
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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
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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