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GENERAL  - Public Act 101-0654 - Education Omnibus Bill - Effective: March 8, 2021  Enacts multiple changes in Illinois public schools,...

1         Introduction Where opportunity exists, conceptual leaders stand ready and eager to innovate. The mobile web provides superb food for innovation, as evidenced by the immersive Ludwig II app by the Bavarian State Library, which includes augmented reality features like 3D pattern recognition so that historical digital objects appear on the mobile screen, triggered by the physical location of the user. It’s also demonstrated by NASA, who created a mobile portal to learning about space through their latest images from space, video, news and social media activity. The Eyewitness...

People with disabilities face roadblocks that prevent them from getting the COVID-19 vaccine “I went looking for the website to register for COVID-19 vaccinations in Tyler, and couldn't find it,” said Michael Hingson, who is blind. Author: Shandel Menezes Updated: 10:30 PM CDT April 7, 2021 TYLER, Texas — "350 new websites are created every minute which amounts to more than 500,000," says Michael Hingson citing a 2019 study. He's the Chief Vision Officer for a web accessibility platform called AccessiBe. He’s also completely blind and says that less tha...

Michael Fouquet is CTO and co-founder of Stark, a startup that provides integrated accessibility tools for product design and development teams. For too many companies, accessibility wasn’t baked into their products from the start, meaning they now find themselves trying to figure out how to inject it retrospectively. But bringing decades-long legacy code and design into the future isn’t easy (or cheap). Businesses have to overcome the fear and uncertainty about how to do such retrofitting, address the lack of education to launch such projects, and balance the scope of these iterations...