Talking Drupal #049 - Assistive Technology with Wade Wingler

Topics


Wade Winger Bio

Definition of Assistive Technology

Crossroads and InData Project

Web Accessibility

Legal requirements for providing an accessible website

Impact of current technology

Getting help developing website



Resources


Easter Seals Crossroads Assistive Technology -
http://www.eastersealstech.com/category/assistive-technology-update/

Making your website more accessible Video Series -
http://www.eastersealstech.com/a11y

Wave Tool Bar - http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar/



Legal Resources


http://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm


http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-section-508-standards

http://www.jimthatcher.com/law-target.htm 



Online References


www.w3c.org/wai

http://theweco.com/

www.a11yproject.com

http://www.webaxe.org/

https://drupal.org/project/accessibility

www.webaim.org/toolbar



Local resources (state assistive tech act
projects)


Www.EasterSealsTech.com/states



Module of the Week


Trasliteration - https://drupal.org/project/transliteration


Provides one-way string transliteration (romanization) and cleans
file names during upload by replacing unwanted characters.


Generally spoken, it takes Unicode text and tries to represent it
in US-ASCII characters (universally displayable, unaccented
characters) by attempting to transliterate the pronunciation
expressed by the text in some other writing system to Roman
letters.


Hosts


Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross

Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental

John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi

Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Wade Wingler - wwingler@eastersealscrossroads.org
@INDATAProject