Tag Archives: Accessibility
UNESCO publishes report on ICTS for people with disabilities
UNESCO has recently published a short report by a group of experts on “ICT for persons with disabilities“. This presented the following recommendations to UNESCO for consideration: “Making UNESCO ICT-accessible The group of experts recommended that UNESCO should ensure overall … Continue reading
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ICTs and Special Educational Needs in Ghana
Godfred Bonnah Nkansah and I are delighted that our paper on the contribution of ICTs to the delivery of special educational needs in Ghana has just been published in Information Technology for Development, 16(3), 2010, 191-211. The paper not only … Continue reading
Filed under Accessibility, Africa, Education, Ethics, ICT4D
Report on using technology to help at-risk youth and people with disabilities gain employment
Researchers at the Technology and Social Change Group in the University of Washington in Seattle (Joyojeet Pal, Jay Freistadt, Michele Frix, and Phil Neff) have recently released an important report on the impact of technology training on the employment prospects … Continue reading
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OECD report on demography and higher education
The OECD has recently (2008 ) published an important monograph entitled Higher education to 2030 (Volume 1): demography (read only version) In summary, this assumes that: There will be continued expansion of student participation, with majority female participation, greater variation … Continue reading
Filed under Accessibility, Higher Education
Refurbished assistive technology hardware
I have long thought that it is close to obscene that ICTs designed to suport people with disabilities are often much more expensive than the standard computers and mobile ‘phones that most of us take for granted. In large part, … Continue reading
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Web Accessibilitiy Initiative’s new standards
Those interested in the use of the Web for and by people with disabilities will be gladdened by the announcement by W3C on 11th December 2008 that it had launched “a new standard that will help Web designers and developers … Continue reading
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