David Sloan

Accessibility is a core quality of digital products to be deliberately addressed throughout the development lifecycle. What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility will prepare readers to integrate digital accessibility into their engineering practices. Readers will learn how to accurately frame accessibility as an engineering challenge so they are able to address the correct problems in the correct way.Illustrated with diverse perspectives from accessibility practitioners and advocates, this book describes how people with disabilities use technology, the nature of accessibility barriers in the digital world, and the role of engineers in breaking down those barriers. Accessibility competence for current, emerging, and future technologies is addressed through a combination of guiding principles, core attributes and requirements, and accessibility-informed engineering practices.FEATURESDiscusses how technology can support inclusion for people with disabilities and how rigorous engineering processes help create quality user experiences without introducing accessibility barriersExplains foundational principles and guidelines that build core competency in digital accessibility as they are applied across diverse and emerging technology platformsHighlights practical insights into how engineering teams can effectively address accessibility throughout the technology development lifecycleUses international standards to define and measure accessibility qualityWritten to be accessible to non-experts in the subject area, What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility is aimed at students, professionals, and researchers in the field of software engineering.A companion site supporting and extending the themes and topics from the book can be found at https://knowaboutaccessibility.org/

Accessibility is a core quality of digital products to be deliberately addressed throughout the development lifecycle. What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility will prepare readers to integrate digital accessibility into their engineering practices. Readers will learn how to accurately frame accessibility as an engineering challenge so they are able to address the correct problems in the correct way.Illustrated with diverse perspectives from accessibility practitioners and advocates, this book describes how people with disabilities use technology, the nature of accessibility barriers in the digital world, and the role of engineers in breaking down those barriers. Accessibility competence for current, emerging, and future technologies is addressed through a combination of guiding principles, core attributes and requirements, and accessibility-informed engineering practices.FEATURESDiscusses how technology can support inclusion for people with disabilities and how rigorous engineering processes help create quality user experiences without introducing accessibility barriersExplains foundational principles and guidelines that build core competency in digital accessibility as they are applied across diverse and emerging technology platformsHighlights practical insights into how engineering teams can effectively address accessibility throughout the technology development lifecycleUses international standards to define and measure accessibility qualityWritten to be accessible to non-experts in the subject area, What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility is aimed at students, professionals, and researchers in the field of software engineering.A companion site supporting and extending the themes and topics from the book can be found at https://knowaboutaccessibility.org/

Four men have done the improbable: predicted perfect March Madness brackets through to the Final Four. Each has chosen a different champion and receives a ticket to the final games to see who will win it all. But the tournament turns their lives upside down in ways they never could have predicted.Cole Kaman, a hapless receptionist in a dead-end job, fills out the bracket at random to impress a co-worker, only to attract the attention of a deranged serial arsonist. Perry Lynwood, a middle-aged gamer who spends his time as a warrior in a virtual city, becomes unhinged as events in the virtual world begin happening in reality. Neeson Faulkner, the ambitious founder of a green energy company, bets everything on the powerful software used to predict his bracket. And Tucker Barnes is a college student who just wants to watch a few games, but he can't seem to escape involvement in an international crisis on the other side of the world.These four men will collide against the backdrop of America's most exciting tournament in a story about genius, luck, ambition, and the unsettling truth that there is always a bigger game.Four men. Four perfect brackets. One tournament. Infinite possibilities.

An experienced teacher explores appropriate literature for each year of the Waldorf high school.He examines the unique developmental stages of each year, and gives rich examples of suitable literature.David Sloan's love for literature, and desire to inspire his adolescent students, shines through these pages. This is a book that will delight high school teachers.