TED

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Address: www.ted.com

Description: The TED website contains videos of many hundreds of talks by the world’s leading innovators in a wide array of disciplines. The talks are inspirational, impressive, and demonstrate the cutting edge of technology and ideas. These videos are provided in a format that is ideal for adult English language learners. Each video has subtitles in many languages, all of them translated and edited by large numbers of volunteer contributors around the world. In a text box next to the video, an interactive transcript can be seen. If a student clicks on a sentence in the transcript box, the video will play at that point in the talk.

Authorship: TED – a member-run group of academics, leaders, and innovators

Publishing Body: TED

Point of View or Bias: None. Member-created content.

Referral to Other Sources: Very little, except links to speaker information websites.

Verifiability: Links.

Currency: Updated daily.

Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 6 accessibility errors. There are many instances of hidden content, unordered lists, missing labels and inaccessible event handlers. There is also a lot of javascript and flash content which typically make severe accessibility issues.

- cc 2009 Jonan Donaldson

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