CS 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Alt.* Hierarchy, Classmates.Com, Digital Divide
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First social media site 1995 classmates. com. Facebook used by harvard as an online student directory. Designing web content to be equally informative and functional for disabilities to access them to their full extent those with disabilities. Indexing tools and search engines can gather more info about site. Speech recognition software turns spoken word into digital text. Screen readers turn digital text into spoken word. Speech synthesizers (text to speech) turn digital text to audio text. Make sure navigation can be done with keyboard. Closed captions for all media with audio. Sec 508 requires accessibility for federally funded organizations. Requires accessibility for all employees and any place of public accommodation . High-speed internet access defined by the fcc as 25mbps internet and those with no or limited access. Mobile access is possible for 69% of the world. Age or lack of previous tech experience. Some only have access to slower connections. Some only have mobile access, limiting what they can do.
