Daily Bookmarks 07/07/2009

• SpeEdChange: Refusing Free, Depriving Students

  Why do schools refuse to use free and open source software options, even when those options would improve accessibility for students? Ignorance? Fear? Politics? Probably some combination of all three.

  tags: education, diversity, accessibility, free, opensource, quoteable

  • If an electrician was too afraid of electricity to touch a wire, he’d be an electrician no more. So if an educator is afraid of the information and communication technologies of his/her age, then he/she can no longer be an “educator” in any meaningful way.

• Accessibility tools, web developer tools, wizards and markup generators | Accessify

  Create accessible forms, YouTube captions, skip nav links, etc.

  tags: accessibility, webdesign, tools

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