Accessibility
Mexican Manifesto
The Mexican Manifesto was an interesting panel, though sparsely attended by SXSW standards. Too bad for those who didn’t attend, since they served shots of tequila at the end of the panel. No kidding. The Usability and Accessibility for the Web International Seminar, organized by the State Government of Nuevo Le-n and the Universidad de […]
Textbooks of the Future
The main emphasis of this panel was to discuss the future of textbooks, and how online and digital technologies can resolve many of the problems that students and schools face in providing this information. The panelists were Melissa Hagemann from the Open Society Institute, Richard Baraniuk of Rice University, Samuel Klein from the One Laptop […]
Images from the Trade Show
Wandered around the SXSW Tradeshow, getting my geek on: Knowbility is a great organization and I’ve had a chance to go to their Access U several times now. “Knowbility’s mission is to support the independence of children and adults with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technology.” Here some […]
Redrum in the Rue Morgue
As an anthropologist, this panel was, of course, intriguing to me. Expanding beyond your own comfortable perceptions of the world is a difficult thing for most people, and the software and gaming industry are running into the usual (and some unusual) problems as they expand beyond the U.S.: ‘Redrum in the Rue Morgue’: Collaboration in […]