http://www.looklistentouch.org/casts Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:10:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 LookListenTouch is a University of South Carolina Upstate research project exploring best practices in applying universal design principles to digital humanities projects. Initial funding has been provided through the student research assistant program of the USC Upstate Office of Sponsored Awards and Research Support. This project will pursue funding to create an online, digital archive from the 150 years worth of material in the archives at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind. The resulting web site will be built using Omeka for a stand-alone digital archive, but the digitized material will also be offered to the South Carolina Digital Library Project. Making this material available to researchers worldwide will contribute significantly to the study of the history of pedagogy and disability. However, in addition to the task of digitizing the material (which we don\'t anticipate will present significant challenges), we would like to investigate and further develop best practices for accessibility in the design of digital archives of this kind (which we anticipate will). Visually-impaired end users take advantage of digital technologies for accessibility that (with their oral/aural and tactile interfaces) are fascinatingly different than the standard monitor-keyboard-mouse combination, forcing us to rethink our embodied relationship to data. Project website: www.LookListenTouch.org University website: www.USCUpstate.edu Look Listen Touch http://www.looklistentouch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Look.Listen.Touch.jpghttp://www.looklistentouch.org/casts Web Accessibility, Digital Humanities, Disabilities Studies, Web, Online, Accessibility, Disabilities, Cory Bohon, George H. Williams no Look Listen Touch georgehwilliams@gmail.com http://www.looklistentouch.org/casts/?p=3 http://www.looklistentouch.org/casts/?p=3#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:05:15 +0000 coryb http://www.looklistentouch.org/casts/?p=3 This video is a basic demonstration of a screen reader, software that reads aloud digital information. The voice you hear first is computer-generated. More screencasts are planned. Please send any feedback to gwilliams@uscupstate.edu.

]]> http://www.looklistentouch.org/casts/?feed=rss2&p=3 0 <p><strong>This video is a basic demonstration of a screen reader, software that reads aloud digital information. The voice you hear first is computer-generated. More screencasts are planned. Please send any feedback to gwilliams@uscupstate.edu.</strong></p> This video is a basic demonstration of a screen reader, software that reads aloud digital information. The voice you hear first is computer-generated. More screencasts are planned. Please send any feedback to gwilliams@uscupstate.edu. Look Listen Touch 6:30 Digital Humanities, Disabilities Studies, Look Listen Touch no