Universally Designed

Knowbility blogs about technology that everyone can use.

Blogging, a new hobby?

All right, I think I am coming through!  This is my first experience with blogging, although I have read lots of other people’s stuff.  I am totally blind, using jaws and have experienced a few slight barriers.  First off, I hope I am putting this text in the correct area, because jaws doesn’t tell me much […]

As part of a project called AccessWorks, Knowbility has hired people with disabilities to perform web site accessibility assessment, research employment related topics on the web, and to blog about their experiences.  While our interns have found a great deal of documentation out there about  barriers to accessing information online, much less is available about […]

Andrew Kirkpatrick from Adobe had a brilliant idea for doing two good things at once. He wanted to honor John Slatin’s memory by spreading the accessibility gospel and to help Anna, John’s best beloved meet the enormous expenses they incurred through John’s illness. Andrew came up with the John Slatin Accessibility Fund. […]

John Meyer Slatin (1952 -2008)

I am stunned by the passing of John Slatin, beloved colleague and mentor to me and so many others. John died on March 24th, 2008 of leukemia and left family, friends and colleagues devastated by the loss. Despite his long illness, we continued to believe that he would remain among us as a […]