Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan was a visitor in our EDM 310 class on October 2nd. He put on a presentation called "Accessibility to All." Mr. Sullivan explained to us that he was legally blind and explained many softwares that he and others use to help. We got to see examples of how these tools were used. One of them was a lense that zoomed in on where ever the person runs the mouse. Another one we looked at would read aloud whatever the mouse ran over. Mr. Sullivan explained to us that when one of your senses does not work, the others work better. He showed us that because he was blind, he could listen to the computer reading everything very fast and translate it for us. He also helped raise awareness that there are people out there and all web sites should be accessible to everyone. We learned how to make our blogs accessible with just a little extra work. Now with these programs if he were to every wonder about my blog he could find out with out the help of other. I very much appreciated him taking the time to come talk to our class.