Handouts, PowerPoints and other presentation and teaching materials are often not fully accessible to people with disabilities and others who have trouble seeing or reading printed or projected material. I know first-hand, as a visually impaired person, that lectures and talks are very difficult to follow when
Read more →I wrote up a how-to guide for a new, easy and free way I came up with to make handouts, PowerPoints and presentation materials more accessible for people like me who cannot see them during talks, lectures, etc. The idea is to insert QR codes (of the sort that are on airplane tickets) on presentation materials, which can easily direct a disabled audience member to an electronic version of your materials. After the talk, you can cancel the code so that it doesn't work anymore. This would really help, I think, to make presentations of most any kind more accessible for disabled people.
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Using QR Codes to Make Presentation Materials More Accessible
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Handouts, PowerPoints and other presentation and teaching materials are often not fully accessible to people with disabilities and others who have trouble seeing or reading printed or projected materi...
Hello, I'm a new member and I'm disabled myself.
Question: does anyone here know about twice exceptionality? I am a philosophy major right now; in the future, I wish to be a therapist to work with gifted\disabled folks, twice exceptionals, because I see that human services and psychlogy are still in their infancy regarding intellectually gifted disabled folks.
From a philosophical view, i enjoy disecting the political, social, intellectual structural barriers that impede gifted disabled folks from advancing.
For those who may be interested...
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Philosophical Perspectives on Disability: A Postgraduate Conference ...
Professor Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University) will deliver the Eastern APA Presidential Address on Friday, January 6 from 4:45-7:00pm. Her talk is titled "The Moral Significance of Being Human."
Of possible interest to folks here:
