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unusual facts about Accessibility


Nordbib

Nordbib was given three major focus areas (named "work packages") vis-a-vis open access to clarify its mission: Policy & Visibility, Content & Accessibility, and Infrastructure & Interoperability respectively.


Bryan Garaventa

While contemplating a switch in career goals, Bryan was hired by Napster in Redwood City as a QA Engineer specializing in accessibility support, where he continued to work from February 2001 until the company's demise in June 2002.

CEN/CENELEC Guide 6

CEN/CENELEC Guide 6: Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities is a document for participants in standardisation activities at CEN and CENELEC that contains guidance for the creation and the revision of standards to ensure greater accessibility of products and services.

Chimichagua

The population of this village migrated to other nearby villages such as Tamalameque, Santa Cruz de Mompox, Valencia de Jesús and Valledupar due to accessibility problems.

Coral Edge LRT Station

The station is conveniently located beside Punggol Plaza, allowing easy accessibility for the residents of Punggol.

County of Flanders

Aside for colonisation, the ports also functioned to reduce the silting of the Aa, Yser and Zwin rivers, which were endangering the accessibility of Saint-Omer, Ypres and Bruges.

Deque Systems

In 2013, Computerworld honored Amaze with the 21st Century Accessibility Award.

Des Lacs River

Accessibility to the region was increased with extensions of Great Northern Railway in 1886 and the Soo Line in 1893.

Designing with Web Standards

The book is credited with converting the industry from tag soup and Flash to semantics and accessibility via correct use of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

DTBook

DTBook was developed by the Daisy Consortium as an accessible file format similar to HTML, with special regard to the requirements of the visually impaired.

Enabling Unit

Dr Satendra Singh, the man behind the Enabling Unit received the NCPEDP MphasiS Universal Design Awards 2013, as a recognition of his work in the field of promoting Accessibility and Universal Design and thus ensuring life of equality and dignity for disabled people.

Fantasy literature

J. R. R. Tolkien played a large role in the popularization and accessibility of the fantasy genre with his highly successful publications The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

Game accessibility

With an increasing number of people are interested in playing video games and with video games increasingly being used for other purposes than entertainment, such as education, rehabilitation or health, game accessibility has become an emerging field of research, especially as players with disabilities could benefit from the opportunities video games offer the most.

Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments

The Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES) is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes accessibility of technologies and the built environment, and the principles of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Günter Dyhrenfurth

This expedition made the first ascent of Sia Kangri and some of its sub-peaks and provided detailed information about the accessibility of the 8000ers Gasherbrum I and II.

Hprints

May 2007 the Nordic funding agency for libraries, Nordbib, granted the hprints project 287,000 DKK as part of its financing programme Work Package 2: Focus area on Content and Accessibility.

Lisa Seeman

Seeman was also involved with ISOC IL, ACLIP, and has worked with accessibility groups of organisations such as Dublin Core and ISO.

Michelle Hinn

She is involved with GameAccessibility.com, a game accessibility project funded by the Bartiméus Accessibility Foundation, and is the Vice-President of the Game Division of DonationCoder.com.

Millwood High School

Due to the increase in accessibility to employment and services in nearby Halifax, which was facilitated by the construction of provincial Highways 101 and 102 through the town in the 1970s, Sackville experienced a rapid growth in population.

National Waterfront Museum

Much effort has been put into accessibility for the new museum, and is one of the first museums in the United Kingdom to feature multilingual voiceovers, as well as British Sign Language captioning on all interactive content.

NCPEDP MphasiS Universal Design Awards

Mr. Srinivasu Chakravarthula, Senior Accessibility Program Lead, Consumer Quality & Engineering Services, PayPal

Northern Maine Regional Airport at Presque Isle

FedEx and United Parcel Service augment park accessibility by air to and from major markets.

Page zooming

It is usually found in applications related to document layout and publishing, e.g. word processing and spreadsheet programs, but it can also be found in web browsers as it improves accessibility for people with visual impairment and people using mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobiles which have a relatively small screen.

Panayikulam

After school students has accessibility to other educational institutions like Union Christian College, St. Xavier's College for Women, Cochin University of Science and Technology, MES College Marampally, etc.

Pangkor Island

Accessibility and convenience of travelling by road and by air to Pangkor was progressively enhanced over the two years 2006–2008, because of the completion of the upgrading workings of Simpang Pulai – Lumut 4-lane dual carriage highway (which is nearing completion), the West Coast Expressway and the introduction of more flights, including AirAsia services.

Paper Mario

IGN's Matt Casamassina praised the game's accessibility, commenting that "it serves as the perfect introductory game to any person hoping to explore the genre".

Phoenix Symphony Hall

Reconfigured main-floor cross aisles, additional elevators and a new wheelchair seating section, greatly improve accessibility for patrons with disabilities and updates compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Screen reader

This approach is considerably easier for screen readers, but fails when applications do not comply with the accessibility API: for example, Microsoft Word does not comply with the MSAA API, so screen readers must still maintain an off-screen model for Word or find another way to access its contents.

Sim Van der Ryn

Van der Ryn was appointed California State Architect in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown, during which time he developed the United States' first government-initiated energy efficient office building program and led adoption of energy standards and disability access standards for all construction in California.

Tia, New South Wales

In 1895 the following description of Tia appeared in the Uralla and Walcha Times - Tia is situated about 25 miles from Walcha, on the Port Macquarie road, and may aptly be called a thorough poor man's fossicking ground, first on account of its accessibility and known auriferous character, and secondly on account of the low cost at which the necessities of life can be obtained.

Timeline of the Toledo Strip

1828: The U.S. House Committee on Territories in the United States House of Representatives reported that the framers of Northwest Ordinance of 1787 intended to give every state created from the Northwest Territory equal accessibility to the Great Lakes, thereby supporting Indiana's claim to a Lake Michigan outlet and Ohio's claim to Maumee Bay.

Twice Upon a Time: The Singles

J. D. Considine of The Baltimore Sun wrote that the album "follows a more twisted path" than Once Upon a Time, chronicling "the band from cult-level acclaim to something resembling pop accessibility."

Unit testing

It is true that unit testing lacks some of the accessibility of a diagram, but UML diagrams are now easily generated for most modern languages by free tools (usually available as extensions to IDEs).

ValloCycle Bike-Share Program

Recently utilized in the City of Birmingham, "sharrows" lanes are a unique infrastructure enhancement particularly adept at improving the safety and accessibility of bicyclists on roads too narrow for other roadway additions.

Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

The Help America Vote Act instructed Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to develop voluntary voting system guidelines—a set of specifications and requirements against which voting systems can be tested to determine if the systems provide all of the basic functionality, accessibility and security capabilities required of these systems.

Wayne Busette

Busette and Transette minibuses both offered optional wheelchair ramps and electro-hydraulic lifts which had been developed by accessibility product pioneers Don Collins, a former Wayne dealer, and founder of Collins Bus Corporation which grew into a major manufacturer specializing in small buses, and Ralph Braun, a disabled man who started Braun Industries with products developed in his garage.

Yves Bolduc

Over his years as a practitioner, Bolduc was more specialized in service accessibility, and he recently implemented methods inspired from the Toyota assembly line to better manage the operating room at the Val-d'Or Hospital.


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