Trust for America and Microsoft through its Unlimited Potential Program launched this program for technology and job training centers for marginalized persons throughout Latin America. Using adaptive technologies, the job centers provide training to persons with disabilities and other marginalized populations in the use of office related software, such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and other programs along with job readiness skills (15 centers in eight countries are currently open). The centers als more...

The Media Access Group at WGBH has been pioneering and delivering accessible media to disabled persons. Its Web site provides a wide range of useful information on different types of live, text, video and other caption services. According to its official Web site: "The Media Access Group continues to develop new means of access each year. Members of the group's collective staff represent the leading experts in their fields. And the success of their various initiatives is exemplified by a history more...

(US)GSA’s IT Accessibility and Workforce (ITAW) provides assistive technology solutions to eliminate barriers for people with disabilities. ITAW’s Assistive Technology (AT) Showcase displays state-of-the-art assistive technologies and ergonomic solutions.ITAW is the governments principal advocate and coordinator for Section 508 implementation that requires agencies to make information technology accessible for people with disabilities. ITAW is recognized as the governmentwide policy resource more...

This is an official U.S. Government Web site managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. it provides information and resources to help you implement usability in your government Web efforts. From the introduction: "Why is usability important to government? The (US) federal government is the largest single producer, collector, consumer, and disseminator of information in the United States. More and more citizens are reaching out to government to find information and services to imp more...

The Children's Partnership is pleased to announce the release of our new
Issue Brief, Helping Our Children with Disabilities Succeed: What¹s
Broadband Got To Do With It? It focuses on the importance broadband can play
in the lives of all children‹and, in particular, the 9% in our country who
also have disabilities.

This report documents the ways broadband can be a powerful tool for youth to
enhance their educational achievement, economic opportunities, and workforce
preparation, to more...

Senior Associate, Technology Program / Santa Monica, California: The Children’s Partnership (TCP) seeks a seasoned professional with expertise in technology policy to guide its digital opportunities work. TCP is a national strategy and policy center, based in California and Washington, D.C., working to ensure that all children—especially those at risk of being left behind—have the resources and opportunities they need to grow up healthy and lead productive lives. We use research, policy de more...

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This is what the Internet sounds like to a blind person surfing the Internet. But like any evolving technology, accessing the Internet has hardly been a smooth ride for the blind.

The World Wide Internet consortium has developed standards to facilitate the print disabled community to have equal access to the internet as their sighted peers. The DAISY Lanka Foundation in Sri Lanka announced that its new website has bee more...

The Studies Center for Handicapped Research (SCHR - CAI) is a non-profit organization. We have been developing this program over ten years of active involvement to provide people with some necessary information about disability.

The term Disability is wide ranged and as such we maintain updated information on physical and intellectual disabilities, visual impairment, hearing impairment, speech/language difficulties, psychiatric, genetic, as well as issues around aging and acquired brain inju more...

A UNESCO supported software to convert text to speech in Belarusian, Russian and English is now freely available for visually handicapped students.
The development of the software entitled Sakrament LibReader is particularly targeted towards educational and cultural purposes. Please learn more on UNESCO's official Web site.

The Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium was formed in May, 1996 by talking book libraries to lead the worldwide transition from analog to Digital Talking Books. DAISY denotes the Digital Accessible Information SYstem.

Members of the Consortium actively promote the DAISY standard for Digital Talking Books because it promises to revolutionize the reading experience for people who have reading disabilities. Specifically, the Consortium's vision is that all published informat more...