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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 9:15PM
Subject: Study on Social Media Use and Accessibility in Canada
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Study on the Use and Accessibility of Social Media by College and
University Students with Disabilities in Canada
The Adaptech Research Network, in partnership with the National
Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), has launched a
national, cross-disability empirical study examining the use and
accessibility of social media by college and university students
with visible and invisible disabilities. For the purposes of this
research, social media includes social networking sites such as
Facebook and MySpace, online gaming, virtual worlds such as
SecondLife, along with instant messaging services, blogs, wikis and sites
such as YouTube, RateMyProfessor.com, and Classmates.com.
Issues to be investigated include: understanding what social media
postsecondary students with disabilities currently use and why;
what, if any accessibility-related issues these users face; and for those
who do not use social media, why.
As colleges and universities, along with sectors such as government,
employers and all manner of commerce turn to social media to reach
prospective, current and graduating college and university students
broadly, it is more important then ever to have data on who is using what
social media, and understand and address any accessibility
barriers. Failure to do so could result in denying full participation by
all college and university students, including those with
disabilities, in the full range of opportunities that engaging with social
media offers.
For more information on the study, contact Project Leader, Jennison
Asuncion = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Since 1996, the Adaptech Research Network has been publishing and
presenting empirical, Canadian research primarily into the use and
accessibility of information and communication technologies by
college and university students with disabilities. This includes a
recently completed three-year study looking at the accessibility of
e-Learning, and the development of evaluation tools that campuses can use
to assess their ICT accessibility from either the service provider or
students with
disabilities perspective. We have further extended our research
scope, exploring the persistence of college and university students with
disabilities (stay tuned for a separate announcement on another study).
Based at Dawson College in Montreal, the team is Co-Directed by Catherine
Fichten, Maria Barile, and Jennison Asuncion. Our
website (to be refreshed over the summer) is located at www.adaptech.org
Jennison Asuncion
Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network www.adaptech.org
LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/jennison
From: M Akram Danish
Date: Tue, Jun 23 2009 2:05AM
Subject: Study on Social Media Use and Accessibility in Canada
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Jennison Mark
Youtube is not accessible for Deaf (Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened) people, thought there is button for caption but I thin no video has any caption. in at WEBAIM someone posted a youtube link of interview about used of heading but I couldn't get anything as there was not captioning.
another thing is e-greetings, long time ago I received one e-greeting card from a friend in wich two cartoons character talking soemthing then laughing, being deaf I couldn't get anything. I email to that e-greeting company but got no positive resonse about making their e-card accessible.
Akram