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1. |  By: Kel Smith Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 18-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 05-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Outcasts
The blind person who tries to make an online purchase. The young girl who cannot speak due to a cognitive disability. The man confined to his home due to permanent injury. The single mother with a long-term illness who struggles to feed her family. With one in seven people worldwide currently living with a disability, the term "outcast" covers numerous scenarios. Digital outcasts rely on technology for everyday services that many people take for granted. However, poorly designed products risk alienating this important (and growing) population. Through a "grass roots" approach to...
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2. |  Pro HTML5 Accessibility: Building an Inclusive Web By: Joshue O Connor Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 21-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro HTML5 Accessibility: Building an Inclusive Web
Pro HTML5 Accessibility helps designers come to grips with building exciting, accessible and usable web sites and applications with HTML5. The book covers how to use HTML5 in order to serve the needs of people with disabilities and older persons using assistive technology (AT). It aims to be a useful 'go-to' guide, providing practical advice. It takes several approaches, including a look at the new semantics of HTML5 and how to combine its use with authoring practices you know from using earlier versions of HTML. It also demonstrates how HTML5 content is currently supported (or not) by...
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3. |  By: Joshue O Connor Publisher: Packt Publishing Publication Date: 31-OCT-2007 Insert Date: 31-AUG-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Joomla! Accessibility
A quick guide to creating accessible websites with Joomla!
Understand what accessibility really means and why it’s important
Ensure that content editors and writers publish accessible articles
Create accessible Joomla! Templates
Understand Assistive Technology (AT) and the needs of people with disabilities
In Detail
Understanding how to create accessible websites is an essential skill these days . You may even be obliged by law to create websites that are usable by the widest audience, including people with a range of disabilities.
This book looks at what...
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4. |  Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance By: Jim Thatcher; Michael R. Burks; Christian Heilmann; Shawn Lawton Henry; Andrew Kirkpatrick; Patrick H. Lauke; Bruce Lawson; Bob Regan; Richard Rutter; Mark Urban; Cynthia D. Waddell Publisher: friends of ED Publication Date: 24-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 25-JUN-2009 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
The power of the Web lies in the fact that anyone and everyone can access it, and this should also extend to users with disabilities. Accessibility is about making websites accessible to those with aural, visual, or physical disabilities, or rather, constructing websites that don't exclude these people from accessing the content or services provided.
This isn't difficult to accomplish and doesn't require anything more than your normal tool set—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, or whatever else. All you need to do is use these tools in the right way, and bear in mind the guidelines that exist...
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5. |  Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice, The By: Blade Kotelly Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 22-JAN-2003 Insert Date: 08-APR-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice, The Most people have experienced an automated speech-recognition
system when calling a company. Instead of prompting callers to
choose an option by entering numbers, the system asks questions and
understands spoken responses. With a more advanced application,
callers may feel as if they're having a conversation with another
person. Not only will the system respond intelligently, its voice
even has personality.
The Art and Business of Speech Recognition
examines both the rapid emergence and broad potential of
speech-recognition applications. By explaining the nature, design,
development, and use...
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6. |  Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone By: John M. Slatin, Ph.D.; Sharron Rush Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Publication Date: 20-SEP-2002 Insert Date: 28-JAN-2003 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone Accessibility is now a legal requirement for all national
government Web sites in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the
European Union. Throughout the world, many other
organizations--universities, schools, and private companies--are
recognizing that accessibility is a moral and business imperative;
many are adopting policies aimed at making Web resources accessible
to the more than six hundred million people with disabilities
worldwide.
Maximum Accessibility is a comprehensive resource
for creating Web sites that comply with new U.S. accessibility
standards and conform to the World Wide Web...
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