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• Boston Accessibility Unconference 2011: What, When, Where, Who
  What The Boston Accessibility Unconference is a participant-driven event, also known as a BarCamp. It is an opportunity for members of the design-, development-, usability- and accessibility communities, along with end users, to share information and interact with each other. Frequently Asked Questions When Saturday, September 17, 2011 Tentative Schedule Where Microsoft New England Research [...]
• Improving Web Searching for People with Cognitive Disabilities
  This post describes a site search designed to help people with cognitive disabilities overcome spelling errors and overwhelming search results.
• Redesigning University Website for People with Learning Disabilities: Feedback
  I present information provided by students and faculty, and a few possible solutions.
• Struggling to Reduce Dense Content Into Chunks Without Requiring Multiple Clicks
  This post relates to my work on a project to make a site more usable for students with learning disabilities.
• Teaching People How To Enlarge Web Pages: Providing Feedback
  This post discusses my intention to incorporate positive reinforcement, and introduces a JavaScript developer who is an accessibility expert.
• Google Video Teaches How To Make Text Bigger
  This post describes the video vis-à-vis the one I hope to produce.
• Teaching People How To Enlarge Web Pages: Task Definition
  This post outlines the objective, the skills to be taught, and the required prerequisites.
• Multimodal Summary of Complex Sentences for People with Cognitive Disabilities
  This following is a synopsis of work on creating multimodal summaries of complex sentences.  A poster of that work, performed by The Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at The University of Rochester, is the source of all the quoted information in this blog post. I plan to employ this approach on the future [...]
• Learning To Teach Basic Web Skills to People with Cognitive Disabilities
  This post is a description of my first experiment with implementing instructional-design techniques.
• New U.S. Plain-Language Law Good for People with Cognitive Disabilities
  This article refers to The Plain Writing Act of 2010.

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