Leyna Bencomo Jul 18, 2018 4 min Human Being Soup This month I attended the first ever CU Tech Connect Event. It was a gathering of the Offices of Information Technology for the 4...
Leyna Bencomo Feb 22, 2018 1 min Ancient History Dr. Scott Kupferman has a beautiful collection of assistive technology which spans most of the history of many of the pieces. He allowed...
Leyna Bencomo Feb 19, 2018 1 min An Infographic of My Own Here is my first Infographic of 2018. I want this to be the first of many I create this year.
Leyna Bencomo Feb 12, 2018 1 min Accessible Documents Infographic I'm in the process of creating an instructional infographic poster for my class. I've chosen to create an aid for teaching professors at...
Leyna Bencomo Jan 27, 2018 2 min Teaching the Teacher Creating Accessible Documents – A Guide for Faculty Part of my job involves converting documents for students with print disabilities...
Leyna Bencomo Jan 12, 2017 2 min Yeah, but No Wouldn't it be great if everyone understood how it feels to depend on a wheelchair? We'd never have to worry about big gaps at...
Leyna Bencomo Jan 3, 2017 1 min The Blind Leading the Blind It is always such a boost to my morale to see people working towards the goal of designing for all people. When someone with a...
Leyna Bencomo May 20, 2016 1 min Having Your Say So many times in the world of disability services, we find ourselves having to speak up and request/demand accessible versions of...
Leyna Bencomo May 1, 2016 1 min Getting Older Could be Much Easier Home is supposed to be the sanctuary, our comfortable place, our castle. As we age, things can get amplified. Tasks that were annoying...
Leyna Bencomo Apr 25, 2016 3 min Privacy or Relevance, That is the Question This is an interesting podcast about the dangers of being online. Lindsey Stone Story Social networking is gaining a permanent hold on...
Leyna Bencomo Apr 14, 2016 1 min Cagey Captioning Can't Cut It I attended a webinar this week that featured Paul Grossman who served as the Chief Attorney for the Office of Civil Rights in San...
Leyna Bencomo Mar 17, 2016 1 min Closed Captions, Please Once again, the courts are insisting that institutions of higher learning seriously address the need to caption their videos. Although...
Leyna Bencomo Mar 15, 2016 1 min Britain's Got Accessibility Jamie Knight from the BBC GEL wrote a beautiful article about designing for accessibility. He uses wonderfully clear examples and...
Leyna Bencomo Feb 14, 2016 2 min It's the Law! I attended the latest meeting of the Colorado Wyoming Consortium of Support Programs for Students with Disabilities in Higher Education. ...
Leyna Bencomo Jan 30, 2016 1 min Who is Joe Average? That is the name of a class I taught to a small group of faculty last month. Joe Average is a statistic, not a person, yet many...
