{"id":17506,"date":"2011-04-06T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=17506"},"modified":"2011-04-06T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T15:31:20","slug":"some-items-re-voicethread-and-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/06\/some-items-re-voicethread-and-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Some items re: VoiceThread and accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/about\/features\/accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/media\/custom\/voicethread_universal_logo_color_big.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"VoiceThread Universal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At  VoiceThread, we believe universal accessibility means more than just  saying we meet a few guidelines in Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation  Act. We do want to make our software usable by all people, and Section  508 does a good job of encouraging that, but we want to go one step  further and make it straightforward and pleasant for everyone to use, as  well. We want to serve the needs of a person with <a href=\"http:\/\/mpbreflections.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/voicethread-universal-support-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">dyslexia<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.voicethread.com\/media\/misc\/support\/JTECVoiceThread.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ADHD<\/a>,  an outdoor classroom with mobile devices, a user in the developing  world without high-speed internet, a kindergartner, or an elderly  lifelong learner. In our experience, the only way to do this is by  thoughtful and sensitive design, with lots of input from our  differently-abled users, and that&#8217;s something that can&#8217;t be contained in  any number of checkboxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freetech4teachers.com\/2011\/04\/voicethread-universal-increases.html\">VoiceThread Universal Increases VoiceThread Accessibility<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/speedchange.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/universal-voicethread-not-quite-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">A &#8220;universal&#8221; VoiceThread? Not quite. And, Google and Prezi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/universal\/guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/voicethread.com\/universal\/guide\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/voicethread.com\/about\/features\/accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/voicethread.com\/about\/features\/accessibility\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accessibility At VoiceThread, we believe universal accessibility means more than just saying we meet a few guidelines in Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act. We do want to make our software usable by all people, and Section 508 does a good job of encouraging that, but we want to go one step further and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,8,286,9,195,49],"tags":[595,570,710,571,670,593],"class_list":["post-17506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-digital-audio","category-digital-learning","category-digital-video","category-tools","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-accessibility","tag-digital-audio","tag-digital-learning","tag-digital-video","tag-tools","tag-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17509,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17506\/revisions\/17509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}