Hello World + Tactile Cat

Moments from a July 1 Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme Computing outreach event at the Living Computer Museum about accessibility. RantWoman somewhat underprepared but figured she could cause enough amusement just fussing with accessibility features on her phone, on Chromie the ambiguously Gendered Chromebook and on her Kindle Fire. On a whim, RantWoman also grabbed some of her tactile graphic experiments.

Always cool resource: ACCESSMAP
https://tcat.cs.washington.edu/projects/


In the realm of gee it's nice not to be the only person in the room spoiling the buzz. One ofhte speakers was talking about a standard STEM  IT curriculum. Spoin the buzz: ask wheter the curriculum includes teaching about #accessibility standards. Um, no.


Alternative input is fun. RantWoman does not remember all the different alternative input modes discussed; RantWoman does remember that the presenter sounds like he really has fun

As long as RantWoman is dabbling in the realms of technological relics, kids, anyone know the computer importance of the phrase "Hello World?"

Come on, don't be shy.

Okay okay, RantWoman will tell you: making the computer type  type "Hello World" on the screen is a simple task used to illustrate how lots of different programming languages work.

RantWoman is too lazy to do any actual research, especially since she expects her readers all have their own preferred search engines anyway. But now you know.


In other news, The Friendly Neighborhood Center for Extreme computing is more haphazard than RantWoman would prefer about our marketing. RantWoman decided that business cards and tactile graphics examples and the devices she uses most were as much as she had any inclination to demo. The black cat story turned out to be a hit.



In still other news, the #blackcat strikes again.

http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2018/03/cat-graphics-tactile-caturday-with.html

The cat image turned out rather well. RantWoman is embarrassed that she can never remember the name of the mom who was thrilled to get acat image. She says her daughter has motor control issues and tactile images sound like just the ticket to help her daughter find the lines. Score one for serendipity