hidden disabilities, helpful technology: improving library accessibility

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Are your library’s computers accessible to someone losing their eyesight or who can no longer use a mouse due to Parkinson's disease? Do you know how a refreshable Braille display works? Does your library have at least one large print keyboard available for use on a public computer? In this session, you’ll learn what products are available to make your library accessible to users regardless of vision impairments or other hidden disabilities. You’ll also familiarize yourself with accessible software that’s already built-in to your library’s computers. Hidden disabilities are everywhere. Find out how to make your library's technology accessible to everyone.

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Wayne County Braille and Talking Book Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped

Hidden Disabilities, Helpful Technology: Improving Library Accessibility

Vanessa J. Morris

Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Did you lose a patron?

Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Is your hardware helping or hiding?

Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Are patrons searching for

software?

Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Can you find any assistive technology?

Hide-and-Seek in the Stacks

Do you know what services

to seek?

Is your hardware helping or hiding?

Large Print

High Contrast

Website

Catalog

Large Monitor

Large Print Keyboard

Trackball Mouse

Trackball Mouse

Headsets

Headsets

Are patrons searching for software?

Ease of Access Center

Universal Access or Accessibility

Magnification Go from this…

to this!

Magnification

Screen Readers

Screen Readers

Screen Readers

http://nvaccess.org/download/

Screen Readers

Window-Eyes: Free with Office 2010 or later

http://windoweyesforoffice.com

Text-Only Browsers

Text-Only Browsers

http://www.webbie.org.uk

http://lynx.isc.org

Speech Recognition

Speech Recognition

Can you find any assistive tech?

Magnifiers

Magnifiers

Magnifiers

3D Printers

3D Printers

Smart Brailler

Braille Printer

Braille Displays

Do you know what services to seek?

http://www.loc.gov/nls/

https://www.bookshare.org/

http://www.learningally.org

Olly Olly Oxen Free

Want to win Hide-and-Seek?

Get a BARD account

Get a trackball mouse

Get a large print keyboard

Use Voiceover on an iOS device

(734) 727-7300 or (888) 968-2737

Vanessa J. Morris vmorris@waynecounty.com

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