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• A new way to create those captioned videos!

  
  The Assistive Technology Blog — Authority: 134
  We love to access the wonderful collection of video clips that abound on YouTube, Teacher Tube and Edutopia. However, many times these do not include closed captions and create a barrier for those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. This news release offers some promising developments on how to make that process more ...
  2 days ago

• Accessible iTunes U and other podcast guidelines

  
  The Assistive Technology Blog — Authority: 134
  Ricky Buchanan notes in a recent article that The National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH has posted accessibility guidelines for creating iTunes U media . We went looking for it and saw help for those who believe in providing closed captions, audio descriptions, accessible PDFs and more. There are video and ...
  4 days ago

• Recommended Reading for November 27

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 655
  via Elizabeth Kissling at re:Cycling : Mental Illness in Academe The first question you must ask yourself is whether to tell your chair and dean. I can think of arguments both in favor of that, and against. One of the pluses would be the psychological benefits of not having a secret and being able to be open. ...
  1 week ago

• Blind folks can’t use donotcall.gov.au

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 139
  There’s a Do Not Call register, hosted by the Australian Government, at donotcall.gov.au. You can, in theory, register your home or mobile number with the register; “responsible” telemarketers then compare their shonkily-obtained “lists” with the Do Not Call register, and, theoretically, do not call you. ...
  1 week ago

• Stumbling Around .gov Websites: Good, Bad, and Goofy

  
  As Your World Changes — Authority: 92
  Recently, attention returned to concern about the role of accessibility in the U.S. government transparency movement . While gov website operators might well deserve a good grade for effort, most sites have obvious failings that experts and users repeatedly point out. In this post, I show some of my personal problems ...
  1 week ago

• An easy way to improve web accessibility

  
  Mark Morrell — Authority: 107
  Has anyone seen the new free accessibility tool on the WAVE site ?  I thought you might be interested in knowing there is a simple to use and visual tool out there compared with other tools that tend to be a bit ‘techie’ in their results. WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blind gamer sues Sony demanding ADA accommodation

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 621
  Alexander Stern has sued Sony Online Entertainment and various affiliated entities involved in online videogaming, saying the company “is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to implement features to make its games accessible to visually impaired gamers.” [ Gamespot , Kotaku , The Register ...
  3 weeks ago

• Defining “Public Accommodation” in Virtual Worlds

  
  AniktoBlog — Authority: 104
  Regular readers of this blog, as well as those who have heard me speak within the past year or so, are already familiar with some of the themes discussed regarding virtual worlds and accessibility . Two stories arose this weekend that could potentially add fuel to the discussion. Although wholly separate, the two ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Some results solidified previous findings - that good heading structure is vital to accessibility,..."

  
  Dontcom — Authority: 466
  “Some results solidified previous findings - that good heading structure is vital to accessibility, that Flash content continues to pose significant accessibility issues for screen reader users, and that images that convey content should be identified for users. It is also clear that the mobile web is a highly ...
  4 weeks ago

• Screen Reader User Survey Results

  
  Dontcom — Authority: 466
  Screen Reader User Survey Results : Here is a particularly poignant extract from the article: The survey asked respondents to select their most, second most, and third most problematic items from a list. In giving each selected item a weighting, the following chart shows the amount of difficulty and frustration users ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Accessibility Developments – Giving Voice to the Web

  
  AniktoBlog — Authority: 104
  Last week saw the emergence of three intriguing technologies in the areas of website vocalization and Web 2.0 usage among people with disabilities. IBM Social Accessibility Project Users who are blind rely on screen reading software to interpret text-based data from Web pages, but sites that aren’t coded correctly ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why Web Accessibility Efforts Fail

  
  AniktoBlog — Authority: 104
  According to a recent report published by Federal Computer Week, the accessibility of federal government websites continues to be an area of need. While problems with the newly redesigned Recovery.gov site were expediently addressed, there remains a number of sites that fail to comply with Section 508 standards. It ...
  6 weeks ago

• Google Increases Awareness of Digital Accessibility

  
  AniktoBlog — Authority: 104
  Google is already synonymous with developing software builds to make the Web more searchable. According to the official Google blog , the company is now making a commitment to accessibility as well. The company has launched a site intended to be the center for Google-related accessibility developments, located at ...
  6 weeks ago

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