During his campaign and throughout his term so far, President Obama has been an active advocate for people with disabilities.  He has a very promising agenda regarding the rights, education and employment of disabled Americans.  However, one area not mentioned on the agenda was the accessibility of Whitehouse.gov.  Many accessibility advocates were very disappointed in [...]

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Earlier this year, Amazon released the Kindle 2, a small portable device that lets you download e-books, magazines, newspapers and more using wireless and read at your leisure.  This new release also can read content aloud using text to speech technology.  Of course this is handy for people with any degree of print disability.  It [...]

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I recently read an article entitled, “Can hiring one employee with a disability make a difference?”  How fantastic it is that there is more and more talk on this topic!  The article sites the employment statistics I posted here in February of this year, as well as another survey taken by the Department of Labor [...]

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I recently learned about Herdict,an on line forum where you can report inaccessible websites.  You can decide if a site and its content are accessible to you, based on your user experience.  They show these reported sites on their page and the data is updated as users add their input.  From the sounds of it, [...]

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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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Maybe people already know about these new finds I post here, but they’re bran new and exciting to me and just might benefit others to know about them.
The first is a Jaws only product, so if you don’t use Jaws for Windows and have no interest in it, skip this part.  This is actually a free [...]

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In our lives, the U.S. economy plays a vital role!  Right now, things are tough for almost everyone when it comes to money and finances.  The percentage of people who are currently without jobs is rising virtually every day.  Up until June of last year, the Current Population Survey taken each month to identify employment [...]

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Ok, the title is misleading, these are women not girls, but I had to think of something catchy.  I recently found out about fastcompany.com.  This site is a place for you to go and read and write comments about various aspects of owning, running and working as part of a business.  It provides networking opportunities, [...]

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For the past two months, WebAIM has been conducting a Screen Reader survey to get a feel for how users deal with various types of web content.  There were 1121 participants, 95% of them being blind and/or low vision, and the remaining consisted of testers and/or web designers who use screen readers for evaluation purposes. [...]

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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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