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Accessibility: Zeinab Hamka

The document discusses various aspects of accessibility for people with disabilities, including: - The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which protects the rights of people with disabilities and prevents discrimination. - Title II of the ADA which regulates discrimination in state/local government services and programs. - Examples of disabilities covered by the ADA including physical, mental, vision, and hearing disabilities. - Assistive technologies that help people with learning disabilities including text-to-speech software, reading aids, and specialized input methods.

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Accessibility: Zeinab Hamka

The document discusses various aspects of accessibility for people with disabilities, including: - The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which protects the rights of people with disabilities and prevents discrimination. - Title II of the ADA which regulates discrimination in state/local government services and programs. - Examples of disabilities covered by the ADA including physical, mental, vision, and hearing disabilities. - Assistive technologies that help people with learning disabilities including text-to-speech software, reading aids, and specialized input methods.

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Accessibility

Zeinab Hamka
American with Disabilities
Act
 Established in 1990.
 It became a law in 2009.
 It protects the rights of people with disabilities.
 It prevents discrimination against them and
provides all their requirements in public Areas.
 https://www.ada.gov/
Title II of Americans with
disabilities
 Title II protects the people with disabilities
from discrimination in services, programs,
And activities.
 It regulates to prevent discrimination
by state and local government.
 Any costs should be paid by the state
or the local government.
www.disabilityrightswi.org
Types of disabilities covered
by ADA and Title II
 Some examples of types of disabilities covered by
ADA and title II:
 Lifting disability.
 Mental disability.
 Vision disability.
 hearing disability.
Ada chart

ADA PERCENTAGE

lifting
mental
vision
hearing

http://www.interactiveaccessi
bility.com/accessibility-
statistics
Assistive technology in learning
 It is a device or a tool or a system that
helps students with learning Disability to
strength their functional capabilities .
 Such as: graphed organizer, Intel
reader, kurzweil 3000, and many
others.
 Those disabilities include physical conditions, autism,
ADHD, etc…
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/assistive-technology-kids-learning-
disabilities-overview
Accessibility and YouTube
 Captioning videos on YouTube are made for the individuals that
have disabilities such as: deaf or hearing problems.
 There are tools that can be used if somebody wants to caption his
own video.
 Visit the link below to learn how to learn how to make your video in
YouTube accessible:
www.washington.edu/accessibility/videos
“alt” tag

 “Alt” tag is a term that is used to make the image in a


text clear for the screen reader.
 “Alt” tag adds accessibility to web pages by making
images accessible to people who has visual problems.
 So when you add an image to his website or Microsoft
office, add alt text to provide access to the content of
the image.

 https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/
Avoiding flashing content

 In accessibility, blinking/flashing content in documents


should be avoided because it can change or move of
the page which can disturb the people.
 Also some people can lose their concentration.
“read&write” chrome

 There are many features in technology that helps


students with special needs.
 “Read&write” chrome is an application that is
created by Google which makes the text of the
documents accessible.
 It is one of the accessibility features.
More about “read&write”
chrome
• It can help students to be more confident in
reading and writing.
• This app can read the text of any document
or file.
• Also it can translate the text into other
languages.
• Explain the meaning of the words in the text
or pictures.
“crxmouse” chrome
 “crxmouse” chrome web browser is another feature of accessibility
which helps the users to control the mouse gestures.
 it can help by using the mouse and navigating to open programs
and other documents.
“sip-and-puff" technology
 “sip-and-puff” is used by students with disabilities who don’t use their
hands,
 By inhaling in a tube to send signals to a device, such as; computer ,
tablets , mobile phones , or any other system.
 Also, it can be used for navigating wheel chairs and for the people
who have severe physical disabilities.
“Gotit” technology

 “Gotit” technology is a software to helps students


to improve their reading and writing capabilities.
 It provides help starting from elementary school
till high school.
 Also it can correct the spelling and grammar
errors in any text.
It is important to make any text or presentation or web
page accessible to make every thing for people with
disabilities easier to use.

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