Accessibility Meets Usability: Designing for Multimedia Using Digital Storytelling  

Initially, this article provides an overview of digital storytelling that describes its uses, technology, a methodology for creating a digital story, tips for creating a digital story, assessment strategies for digital stories, and links to current examples of digital stories. Next, this article recounts the third author's first experience with digital story-telling, in the context of helping children with hearing loss adopt a more positive frame of reference toward their disability. It describes the storyboarding process, explains how writing is still a primary concern, and gives some valuable advice concerning the pros and cons of dabbling in high- technology. Last it discusses accessibility and usability requirements for digital stories.

Reece, Gloria A. and Judy Vinegar . STC Proceedings (2004). Articles>Accessibility>Multimedia>Usability

Working to 508: Seeing, Hearing, and Understanding Accessible, Usable Web Pages  

Now that the U. S. Government has mandated that web pages comply with accessibility standards (Section 508, a 1998 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973), it is time to test web pages against the standards. “What do newcomers to these standards need to know to ensure that they are on the right tract with accessible, usable web page design? “What do web page designers need to know beyond 508 standards? Join us in an exploration of our personal experiences with “stuckness” when using web pages (visual accessibility), Reece; learn possible solutions to our “silent screams” (audio accessibility), Vinegar; and consider also the question of web page accessibility to users with cognitive or learning disabilities (comprehensibility), Gillen.

Reece, Gloria A., Judy A. Vinegar and Lori Gillen. STC Proceedings (2003). Design>Web Design>Accessibility>Section 508