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Category Archives: Graphics
AI Image Description: A Report
Contents1 Report Table of Contents2 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Success!!2.1 AI Results2.1.1 Infographic: Grand Jury v. Trial Jury in the Federal Court System.2.1.1.1 Alt-Text:3 Technical Diagrams – Pretty Darn Good3.1 Missing Data Points3.2 Harrisburg Climate Chart3.2.1 AI Description3.2.1.1 Text in… More On: AI Image Description: A Report
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A Future Date: Translating Maps and Geographic Data to Non-Visual Formats
This session reviews different uses of map images and different strategies to make them accessible including tables, ALT text, long description and tactile/3D graphics. Presented at the 2020 A Future Date Virtual a11y Event. Thanks to Matt May of Adobe,… More On: A Future Date: Translating Maps and Geographic Data to Non-Visual Formats
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Mind Maps Gone Wild
Scott McDonald on the Stuff Blog pointed out a great mind map parody on Flickr and I have to agree – it’s really one messy mind map. I’ll replicate the effect of this mind map in this history of English… More On: Mind Maps Gone Wild
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That Text is Too Rich For Me
There are a lot of tech trends out there to comment on, but one of the sillier, in my opinion, is the tendency for cut and paste to capture formatting as well as text. Capturing format is useful if you… More On: That Text is Too Rich For Me
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Why I Avoid Labeling Arrows on my Concept Maps
I’m actually a big fan of diagrams (maps, family trees, bar charts) but I’ve always found the standard concept map (like the one below from Wikipedia) a little confusing Click Image to Enlarge This is one of those concept maps… More On: Why I Avoid Labeling Arrows on my Concept Maps
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ALT Tags without Tears?
I’ve been talking a lot about accessibility recently, but the one thing I have utterly failed to convey is that it’s not as scary as it sounds. Sometime it can be relatively painless if you just know the right trick.… More On: ALT Tags without Tears?
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Color Blindness Filter in Photoshop CS4
An accessibility tip I learned from the Photo Walk Pro blog is a new proofing tool in Photoshop CS4 which simulates two types of color blindness (or color deficient view). How To The simple how to is that you: 1.… More On: Color Blindness Filter in Photoshop CS4
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Diagrams in an Online Course
One of the courses I’ve been working on for a while is an upper-level engineering course. One of the “hidden” requirements is that students be able to provide sketches of problem scenarios. The idea is that a sketch can help… More On: Diagrams in an Online Course
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Some Custom Tech Tags
I am one of the many users who felt the need to create yet more TLT Tech Tags Unicode This version is the syllable /yu/ in Sanskrit. Dave also made one that was a therefore operator (⊃) symbol which resembles… More On: Some Custom Tech Tags
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Pixel Stick, my new BFF
One of the niftier freeware Mac apps I’ve downloaded is “Pixel Stick” which as the Web site describes PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen. Excellent for designers or anyone who wants to measure a… More On: Pixel Stick, my new BFF
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