Accessibility and deafness posts

Here’s a link to the Second Life, deafness and accessibility posts from our project Learning from Online Worlds; Teaching in Second Life. 

http://learningfromsocialworlds.wordpress.com/category/accessibility-deafness-virtual-worlds/

Cultural Disability Studies Research Network

There are interesting papers, links and resources available at the CDSRN website at http://www.cdsrn.org.uk/ICP.html

Games, access, disability links

For material on games, access and disability, refer to the IGDA’s SIG at http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Accessibility_SIG

Resources at http://www.game-accessibility.com/

There are some interesting project listed here at Furtherfield

Wonder Wac at the Wac Performing Arts and Media College

Multimedia in Westminster and Project X at the Paddington Arts (information)

See Tera Kirk’s articles at gamecritics.com – follow this link.

SL for VI

http://textsl.org/
“TextSL is an application that allows visually impaired users to access Second Life using a screen reader.”
Beta version available, works with JAWS.