All About Access

At least I think this is going to be the first virtual conference in our field. According to Ocusource:

Now, from the comfort of your very own computer, you can visit the worlds most comprehensive tradeshow for the vision impairment industry with a twist - live online presentations! All brought to you with the compliments of OcuSource.com, LLC and TalkingCommunities, LLC.

The conference/tradeshow/expo is free for attendees.

–jd

According to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing:

Google Accelerator wreaks havoc on Web-apps by “clicking every link” on every control screen in order to cache it — so it also ends up clicking on “Delete my account” and “Launch pre-emptive nuclear strike,” etc

It’s probably not even accessible, but don’t install Google Accelerator anyway.

–jd

Look up drug information, learn about diseases and conditions, and read articles about healthy living: It’s all at Yahoo Health, and it’s all accessible! (more…)

Good evening, morning, or afternoon to you!!! Why am I so chipper, you ask? Because the Google captcha issue is now being discussed on the blogs of librarians, in particular Baby Boomer Librarian and LibrarianInBlack. I am thrilled to see librarians join us in advocating for information and services that are accessible to all users! (more…)

According to Jeff Bishop, the iPodder development team rules. That goes without saying: iPodder is a great product. But the reason Jeff says they rule is their efforts to eliminate the access issues in their product. And now there is a beta out. Want to test some of the fixes?

-jd

This very afternoon, my supervisor received the following question by email:

Is there a phone book on the computer which is accessible with JAWS? How do you use it? We are not allowed to use Directory Assistance at work so I need an alternative.

The timing of this question couldn’t be better! After all, it’s Yahoo Week at All About Access, and Yahoo has accessible phone directories. (more…)

I follow a number of blogs on a variety of different topics, one of which is Dave Winer’s Scripting News. Dave is one of the founding fathers of blogging and, as I learned fairly recently, RSS. Tomorrow is his 50th birthday, and he has one request:

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