Accessibility

Welcome to the 'Accessibility' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Accessibility'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Accessibility”

• Accessibility Statement: Disability.gov

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 145
    Accessibility Statement: Disability.gov
  11 hours ago

• Working with the Ministry

  
  WebWeaver's World — Authority: 92
  Earlier on in the year we were given the opportunity to pitch for a re-design job on the Ministry for the Environments website , which we won. Sue and I were completely thrilled - its the first Government client that WebWeaver Productions has pitched for (although Ive worked on over 50 government websites as a ...
  22 hours ago

• Google to caption YouTube videos, improving accessibility

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 435
  From the San Francisco Chronicle (with video), New York Times, BBC:Google has announced a plan to use speech recognition technology to automatically bring text captions to millions of YouTube videos, making them accessible to people with hearing impairments and making them more searchable.Analysts expect the change to ...
  2 days ago

• Intel Announces a Reader for the Blind

  
  Gear Diary — Authority: 714
  Click here to view the embedded video. Last week, the big news was that several universities decided not to support the Kindle (or similar e-readers, presumably) because they are not accessible or friendly to blind and visually impaired students. Intel has stepped up this week though with an innovative device to ...
  2 days ago

• Full Frontal ‘09: Todd Kloots on ARIA and Acessibility

  
  Ajaxian Front Page — Authority: 618
  Todd Kloots is talking accessibility and ARIA, with examples showing how YUI nicely supports these techniques. He explains how to improve in three areas: perception, usability, discoverability. Can We Do ARIA Today? Yes. Firefox and IE (he didnt say which version) have really good support for ARIA. And Opera, ...
  2 days ago

• Deaf People with Low Incomes Can Call for Help at CAAS

  
  Somerville Voices — Authority: 136
  Deaf and hard of hearing Somerville residents living on low incomes can now call the Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS) for help making ends meet. CAAS’ new TTY number is 617-628-6387.
  2 days ago

• YouTube Launches Automatic Captions; Great for Accessibility and Search

  
  Brisbane Search Engine Optimization SEO Training - Advice - Tools - Resources — Authority: 143
  YouTube Launches Automatic Captions; Great for Accessibility and Search YouTube is introducing machine-generated automatic captioning to YouTube . The captions can also be translated. This obviously has incredible implications for the hearing-impaired and language translation. But it also has great ...
  2 days ago

• A word of thanks to his Eminence Metropolitan Philip

  
  Arms Open Wide — Authority: 410
  Earlier this year the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops (SCOBA) put forth a statement on Disability and Communion , which is listed first on the blogroll to the right on this site: SCOBA Statement. Since his Eminence’s favorite charity is Al-Kafaat (Abilities, in Arabic) in Lebanon, which ...
  2 days ago

• cognitive disability simulation from Webaim

  
  Laura tumbles on the interweb — Authority: 152
  cognitive disability simulation from Webaim
  2 days ago

• Thanks, Gripes, Wallet Followup, and Other Frustrations

  
  Forced to Sit Still and Shut Up -- Life Before, and During ALS — Authority: 107
  First of all: Things I am thankful for: Sprintip which allows me to do relay phone calls. My aides who have stuck with me for years, when there are a lot of easier cases they could be working on, like nice little old ladies who really dont need too much help, just someone to be there. My family, who invited me for ...
  3 days ago

• Automatic captions on YouTube

  
  Google Public Policy Blog — Authority: 677
  Posted by Pablo Chavez, Managing Policy Counsel Today, here in D.C., we announced the preliminary roll-out of automatic captioning in YouTube, an innovation that takes advantage of our speech recognition technology to turn the spoken word into text captions. We also announced that if you have a transcript of your ...
  3 days ago

• Official Google Blog: Automatic captions in YouTube

  
  Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds. — Authority: 133
  "Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, weve introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because Im deaf. Today, Im in ...
  3 days ago

• “Bad Cripple”

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 667
  Last month, I went to a non-partisan Campaign School, where women learned the nuts and bolts of running a winning campaign for political office in Canada. We all said a bit about ourselves, and I stood up and introduced myself as a Disability Rights Activist. I spent the rest of the weekend being told how “Bad ...
  3 days ago

• YouTube Launching Automatic Video Captions

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 698
  YouTube is readying the launch of an automatic captions feature for the sites videos. This and a new automatic caption timing feature will make it easier for anyone to add captions to their videos, and will enable anyone to read captions on more videos. "Since the original launch of captions in our products, we’ve ...
  3 days ago

• Automatic captions in YouTube

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 144
  Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we’ve introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I’m deaf. Today, I’m ...
  3 days ago

• Thunderbird 3 is coming out soon, and it’s accessible!

  
  Marco's accessibility blog — Authority: 409
  The release of Thunderbird 3 is just around the corner. Aside from all the great new features Thunderbird 3 has in general, its accessibility story is also one which should be celebrated once the release has happened. Thunderbird 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which is the same version that Firefox 3.5 is ...
  3 days ago

• Liberal Party upset over signs?

  
  Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics — Authority: 553
  A Liberal Party press release yesterday criticized the government for putting up “signs for signs” : OTTAWA – Liberal MPs today attacked the latest Conservative propaganda tactic of putting signs in front of federal buildings that advertise the installation or study of other signs. “Stephen Harper calls ...
  4 days ago

• Recruiting: Does your Web site discriminate?

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 131
  With the Internet as the most common tool used to recruit employees, companies need to make sure their recruiting pages are accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility problems can stir up legal trouble, as well as limit the field of applicants available for open positions. To avoid those problems, talk ...
  4 days ago

• Recruiting: Does your Web site discriminate?

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  With the Internet as the most common tool used to recruit employees, companies need to make sure their recruiting pages are accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility problems can stir up legal trouble, as well as limit the field of applicants available for open positions. To avoid those problems, talk ...
  4 days ago

• But Accessibility is too Expensive

  
  Womanist Musings — Authority: 653
  Last night I froze watching my oldest child play hockey.  It is part of the duty of a Canadian mother to tolerate this little ritual.  Destruction got his second assist and though they lost the game, he played well.  As I stood there, my body wracked in complete pain, I decided that it was time to make management ...
  4 days ago

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