Andrew Lyons '06 and Joshua Hicks '09 have just completed redesigning the Web site for Oneida County Communities That Care, a local non-profit organization. Their redesign will make the site accessible to visually impaired computer users and enhances the general usability of the Web site.
Lyons and Hicks did their work as the service-learning component of a class taught by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita. "Service learning makes the course much more exciting," Rosmaita said. "Andrew and Joshua were able to combine their regular classroom learning of accessible design techniques with serious practice as they deconstructed and then reconstructed a professionally designed website."
This is the seventh Utica-area non-profit website that Hamilton students have worked with since Rosmaita began the Web Accessibility Research Project in 2005. Other groups include the Resource Center for Independent Living, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, and the Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Oneida County Communities That Care is an independent non-profit initiative promoting effective collaboration between schools, health and human service agencies, government, law enforcement, local business, faith organizations, and the communities they serve.
Lyons and Hicks did their work as the service-learning component of a class taught by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Brian Rosmaita. "Service learning makes the course much more exciting," Rosmaita said. "Andrew and Joshua were able to combine their regular classroom learning of accessible design techniques with serious practice as they deconstructed and then reconstructed a professionally designed website."
This is the seventh Utica-area non-profit website that Hamilton students have worked with since Rosmaita began the Web Accessibility Research Project in 2005. Other groups include the Resource Center for Independent Living, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, and the Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Oneida County Communities That Care is an independent non-profit initiative promoting effective collaboration between schools, health and human service agencies, government, law enforcement, local business, faith organizations, and the communities they serve.
