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I do not know if this is correct. I am still having trouble with the ways of the wiki.

Since I do not know what everyone is going to use for their projects I am going to have some broad information for Monday.

For my project I am researching how to make the technology you will use, in your curriculum projects, accessible to the blind and visually impaired. There is information that gets very technical when making a website for the Web Access Initiative website. AFB-American Foundation for the Blind- has a lot of information on technology and making it usable for the VI. They give guidelines for making websites and blogging. They especially liked Bloglines for the novice blogger because the user interface is fairly intuitive, it does not have a graphic captcha (a graphic of letters and numbers that are written in a crazy way and you have to translate it to get into the site), the graphics are well labeled and it is screen reader friendly. Cast.org, Center for Applied Special Technology, using the UDL (Universal Design for Learning- multiple ways of aquiring, expressing what they know and means of engagement) has software to help with accessibility: __Bobby__: which is a webbased tool to test a website for accessibility and __Curriculum Barriers Finder:__ shows teachers how to find the barriers in their curriculum concerning the students in the classroom.
 * show example of a good/bad site

Three groups They are getting publishers to have accessible content from the beginnings of their projects: Images, Links, Charts and Tables- have long descriptions Digital movies have captions and Video Descriptions (Descriptive Videos, they talk through the non-verbal sections) Auditory Media- has text and other visual representations Electronic Books-made to work with many environments and individuals who need supports for reading.
 * 1) National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum
 * 2) World Wide Web Consortia Web Accessibility Initiative, WeC-WAI
 * 3) NISO-National Information Standards Organization