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The Accessibility & Usability category provides:

Information about local resources, information, and support to technical communicators with disabilities.
Pointers to help technical communicators make the products they create accessible to end users with disabilities.
Information about usability concerns.

Aspiring Authors and Contributors for this category: contact Carolyn Kelley Klinger

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What Frustrates Blind Users on the Web: Research on 100 [...]

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The AccessAbility SIG has published information about Getting around at the 2008 conference in Philly. It has illustrated directions from the Market East Platform to the PA Convention Center or the Philadelphia Marriott.
For those who are arriving by train at the Amtrak station, there is a note about how to transfer from the Amtrak station [...]

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STC member, Sarah Horton, wrote about accessibility and the Web in her book “Access by Design”. There is an excellent book review on the SAP Design Guild site at
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_acc_design.asp.
The review is a thorough discussion of the book and the whole reason for the book. It might even inspire you when you think about writing a [...]

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STC member, Frank M. Palinkas, has developed a new Fast Track tutorial, which is free to the technical writing, user assistance, accessibility and web design communities. The tutorial was presented at the 2008 WritersUA Annual Conference in March at Portland, Oregon. This tutorial demonstrates how to create the accessible, static Navigation section on the left [...]

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Sharing this news release from the National Association of the Deaf. The third bullet, about this applying to Internet-based video programming, could have implications for webcasts and e-Learning.
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NAD Supports Draft Legislation to Ensure Access to Technology
SILVER SPRING, MD - The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) announced its support of a recently released U.S. House [...]

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The AccessAbility SIG of STC is pleased to bring you another STC conference accessibility guide. Download a PDF of the guide at http://www.stc.org/55thConf/access/index.asp. To help you plan your journey to Philadelphia and the 2008 Technical Communication Summit, look for the guide on the conference site under "Accessibility" at http://www.stc.org/55thConf/index.asp.
Feedback from attendees at the 2007 [...]

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The Washington, DC Metro chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) is pleased to announce that registration has opened for User Focus 2007. This second annual usability conference, to be held on Friday, October 12, 2007 at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, is a one-day exchange of ideas and experiences that demonstrate the value of [...]

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A study in Usability Engineering - “What Frustrates Blind Users on the Web: Research on 100 Blind Users”
Wednesday August 15, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Dinner at 6:00pm $10, speaker at 7:00pm free.
Location:
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The Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Rd
Laurel MD 20723-6099
Washington Area: 240-228-5000
Baltimore Area: 443-778-5000
Speaker:
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Dr. Jonathan Lazar - Professor, Towson State [...]

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