Accessible Technology

This series of webinars, hosted by the DBTAC Great Lakes ADA Center, helps to increase understanding of technology accessibility for people with disabilities. Upcoming webinars include "The Power of Social Networking Sites for People with Disabilities" and "Best Practices in Developing and Disseminating Documents Electronically".

Video that discusses the importance of building accessible websites and web-based applications to reach broader audiences. Read the transcript of this video.

Provides instructions on how to add captioning to videos by using an online paid service, do-it-yourself Internet services, free captioning software and text editing of pre-established files.

Learn how to prepare electronic files to more easily convert to accessible PDF, as well as the tools within Adobe Acrobat that help with accessibility. This Webcast is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's TARGET Center Discovery Series.

Learn about the capabilities and limitations of web presentation software, especially as they apply to Section 508 and web accessibility. Find out what steps you can take to make your online presentations more universally available. This presentation is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's TARGET Center Discovery Series.

Learn the basics of Web accessibility and understand the different ways that users experience your Web site. This Webcast is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's TARGET Center Discovery Series.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced the extension of the waivers of certain telecommunications relay services (TRS) mandatory minimum standards for Video Relay Service (VRS) and Internet Protocol (IP) Relay Service that were to expire on January 1, 2010. The Commission, in various orders, has waived several TRS mandatory minimum standards for VRS and IP Relay either because, as Internet-based services, it is not technologically feasible to meet the requirement or, in the case of VRS, because VRS is a video-based service and the communication is via sign language and not text. This link opens a PDF document and is also accessible as a Word document.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched on the crowd-sourcing platform Ideascale to allow the online community to discuss, evaluate and rank ideas as the Commission develops a National Broadband Plan to provide a strategy for high speed internet access. The development of this plan is a unique opportunity to assure that the nation's investment in a broadband infrastructure is accessible to all Americans.

The Internet improves access to employment and community for many people. However, there is growing concern that many Web sites are inaccessible to people with certain disabilities. This article examines the impact on people with disabilities of online human resources processes used for employee recruitment, benefits, and training.

Would you like to embed YouTube videos on your website? Would you like to ensure that your website viewers with disabilities have equal access to your video? Business.gov has made its YouTube video player available to web managers who would like to embed YouTube videos on their websites. This video player follows the Section 508 Standards for web-based applications.

Tool for finding educational and assistive technology products for students with different disabilities. TechMatrix's search tool generates results based on subject area and learning supports, including adaptive devices, text-to-speech software, touch screens, electronic references and resources, multiple formats of text, alternate access to computers and peripheral devices (input and output) and more.