In academia, much of what they write is meant for free and open
distribution. The system works like this: Whenever you want what you write
to be freely accessible to others, you send it to a journal (preferably an
open access journal) and also deposit it in an interoperable open access
The Blind Struggle As Gadgets Proliferate
Sat Apr 23, 8:38 PM ET
By VICKI SMITH, Associated Press Writer
As technology has evolved, it's become lighter, smaller and more
portable. For most people, that makes it more convenient. For
millions of blind and vision-impaired people, it's anything but.
Todd Seal wrote:
The original post for this discussion was *not* about new standards. I
think that's just how you've interpreted the subject line. It was
about old browsers that are still in use and finding out what those
browsers are.
Fair enough. Siobhan wrote:
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Friends:
Here is an excerpt from the 141st Presidential address given by Prof. Bruce
Alberts to the Fellows of the US National Academy of Sciences (19 April 2004).
I hold Prof. Alberts in high regard. Not only is he an outstanding life
scientist, but he has an insightful understanding of the
Claude Almansi wrote:
Hi All
One odd thing about this article: podcasting gets mentioned only once,
between bracket. Interesting queries about copyright issues raised by
students' ability to record a course and put it on the Net.
Yeah, it's a definite copyright issue by the present
I agree with this statement. In Pondicherry in southern India, we did not
aim at e-goverance at all when we started the Information Village Research
Project with financial support from IDRC. But as we started providing
information on government entitlements, among other things, more and more
In response to Taran Rampersad's diatribe at 17:07 23/04/2005
I find your response patronising and rude and for someone who presumes to
quote Criticize by creating after their signature baffling.
Quite honestly I don't understand why it was distributed on the list, as it
just seems to be about
Hola All~~ Yes, this is great good news and I know the DDN will grow more and
more as time goes by. I have been on the DDN Discussion List for a few years
now. We should know that behind and beneath the digital divide is the
continued economic gap between the rich and the poor, the 'haves'
This post contains a selection of sources regarding the use of computers
as a learning tool for autistic children including articles on the topic
and lists of articles and pertinent resources in the area, with a few more
general sources about children using computers.
From: David P. Dillard
At 5:50 AM -0400 4/23/05, Sandra Latherbenson wrote:
As a creative thinker, it is grand to find such a body of scientific
professionals who are willing to share knowledge and interests.
Where else can you see this?
The only comparable listserv that I know of is Webheads - where
marvelously
At 6:56 PM +0200 4/21/05, J Cravens wrote:
Actually, I am rather impressed with blogger.com in this regard.
Blogger.com does not work with my machine -- I'm on a Mactintosh,
and have three browsers: MS Explorer 5, Netscape 7.0, and Opera 6.3.
Blogger.com does not work with any of them -- it
Is it too much to ask that folk with older browsers simply turn
off style sheets?
Yes. Maybe not too much, but it's the wrong approach. What's wrong
with initiatives like the W3C or www.knowbility.org encouraging
designers of web sites to make them accessible to all? It's what was
done with
I am fairly sure that a lot of concepts in education have not been updated
to the Internet age:
o Does the student really have a license to record the professor's lecture in
the first place?
Just because a person has paid tuition, it does not mean that they do have a
license to do anything they
It's clear that this debate over browsers and stylesheets isn't going to
be resolved, and the discussion is getting acrimonious. I think it's
time we take this conversation off-list.
ac
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