All right, so today was the first day of the SXSW tradeshow!  I spent this afternoon at Knowbility’s booth giving demonstrations of jaws and talking to a lot of people about accessibility.  I also got to sit in and participate in a barcamp discussion on accessibility and its importance in social media.
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I am hoping to attend my fourth conference this May in Austin. I’m new to this blog. I have competed in AIR Houston several times and am now on the AIR Houston board. I am the webmaster of the Houston Department of Health and Human Services.  Part of my interest in accessibility is that both [...]

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For the past couple of weeks, I have been on facebook, fairly active and experimenting.  I started out with just a couple of friends, but through the power of this social media, in the past few days, I now have almost 50 friends.  I have figured out how to link my facebook with my twitter, [...]

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Ok, so I understand the need for verification.  Web sites need to know if you’re a human being or a spam bot when trying to register for or use a service.  When the visual verification system or captcha came out some years ago, it caused many accessibility barriers.  The boxes are small, the characters sometimes [...]

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In the mid 20th century, the radio was the source of entertainment for so many households.  Families would sit by the radio and listen to music, the news and a variety of half-hour dramatic stories and would be entertained for hours.  Without images to look at, the listener would simply imagine what the people and [...]

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I just returned from a 2 week trip to see my father in Utah.  It was a fun Christmas with lots of snow and family.  My Dad got a new ipod nano as a Christmas present, something he had previously sworn he’d never need or use.  You see, my dad, like many people is somewhat [...]

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Ok, so I know you have called your bank or some other business and have dealt with voice interfacing on the phone.  So many companies use this to give you information, weather it be your bank account balance, movie times, and a ton of other things that you can access via your computer.  This makes [...]

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“The core of our American democracy is the right to vote. Implicit in that right is the notion that that vote be private, that vote be secure, and that vote be counted as it was intended when it was cast by the voter. And I think what we’re encountering is a pivotal moment in our [...]

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A few months ago, I posted a blog about e-bay and some of the changes they had made. While at that time I could still use the site, their changes had started to makeshopping on e-bay very difficult. Unfortunately, they have continued alterations to the site and now, it is next to impossible to shop [...]

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Ok, so I just received a new note taker and want to see how my blogs will look when using it to post. This machine is fantastic! It has a pretty powerful web browser, media player, calendar, and of course word processor with which you can take notes! If I could figure out how to [...]

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