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DisabledGo is an award-winning disability organisation of 9 years standing based in the UK but increasingly operating in Europe. The organisation was founded by Dr. Gregory Burke, a wheelchair user since the age of 16, who wanted to find a practical way to encourage disabled people to access and contribute to their communit (Read More)
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But government's draft National Policy for Electronic Accessibility offers some hope. Last month, Deepak Kumar (name changed on request), a businessman who is visually-impaired, logged on to check out for some information on the newly-created Rajya Sabha website. Given the government's assurance this February that at leas (Read More)
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Gov't bill would make Internet more accessible for disabled via real-time texting, closed captioning
Oct 07, 2009
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This month, as Congress returns from break, health care reform is not the only imperative issue on their plate. A new bill will aim to make content on the Internet more friendly to those with disabilities. The "21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009" (H.R. 3101) plans to modernize disability standar (Read More)
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I've been communicating with an accessibility advocate who lives in Seattle. He's one of those rare people who pays attention to the issue because he cares about people with disabilities and how access to technology can make a big difference in the quality of their lives. Mike is a former corpsman (medic) in a VA hospital a (Read More)
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456 Berea Street:
When Apple announced the iPhone almost three years ago, I posted some thoughts about the lack of a real physical keypad and how that would make it difficult to make the iPhone accessible to people who are visually impaired.One of the ideas I had was to somehow give the user audio feedback. Well, Apple fortunately did a lot (Read More)
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Nielson Group offers research data as a gift for the New Year.
Jacob Nielson, whom I have long admired for his excellent research into web usability, is offering a fantastic PDF report for free on his website. I am not sure if this is a limited time offer, so go ... (Read More)
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Matt Bailey, founder of the AccessibilityBlog.com, will present an Accessibility and Usability training class in London. The four-hour class will take place on February 22nd from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the Business Design Center, 52 Upper Street, Islington.The class will focus on the development of accessible,yet usable ... (Read More)
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Courtesy: Good Experience Blog
The number one reason to build an accessible website (or to be accessible, no matter what the subject): You lose money, and potential customers have bad experiences.
Good Experience Blog shows an experience at Bloomingdales when a father with a stroller asks a store clerk if there ... (Read More)
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456 Berea Street:
Many sites use skip links as a way of helping people who do not use a mouse to quickly jump to the main content. It can be very useful, which I notice myself as I often use my keyboard to navigate instead of the mouse.One problem that I run into on some sites is that the skip links are hidden. It’s a bit strange that after (Read More)
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A month ago I posted a tip about the Readability bookmarklet which can be used to make websites easier to read. After that I was made aware of another option: Readable.The Readable setup page offers more customisation options than Readability does, which is useful. One of the options is to use Better Web Readability, a CSS (Read More)
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If you can read Swedish and are interested in usability there is now a free online book on the subject. Tommy Sundström, author of Användbarhetsboken (”The usability book”), recently started posting the book on his blog, chapter by chapter.A print edition of the book is also available if you want it all right now or simply (Read More)
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Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog:
In WebAIM's article Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility, the most varied and complex area of accessibility is addressed. Cognitive accessibility is more prevalent than all physical and sensory disabilities combined, but seems to be dealt with the least, probably because it's most difficult to pinpoint as well as to solv (Read More)
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Ever find yourself reluctant to read stuff you really would like to read if it wasn’t on a site whose visual design is not compatible with your eyes? I do.There’s always the option of simply turning CSS off, but that doesn’t always look so good. Another option is to try the Readability bookmarklet, which tries to remove eve (Read More)
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There are 60 million people with disabilities in the U.S. There are more than 10 times that number around the globe. Yahoo!'s Accessibility team wants to make sure that every one of these individuals is able to use Yahoo! as their web site of choice. That will only be possible, of course, if every corner of our network is f (Read More)
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Marking the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Labor Department has revamped Disability.gov to include social media tools and encourage interaction and feedback. The new Web site allows visitors to sign up for personalized news and updates, participate in online discussions and suggest resources fo (Read More)
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