For the 12th year running, Knowbility is proud to present our AIR-Austin program!  As always, we are so excited to bring together non-profits and web developers to move toward a more accessible www!  We have a lot of fun, learn so much and enjoy some wonderful networking opportunities.  For our readers who will be attending [...]

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Telecommuting is becoming more and more popular in our busy society.  People cannot possibly go to every meeting in person anymore, there is too much to do and not enough time in the day.  For quite some time, conference calling was the way to go.  You can call in from any telephone and hear the [...]

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I want to start off by saying that I am very behind in my blogging efforts!  Summer had me running around trying to do 10 things at once and not doing any of them the way they should be done.  I thrive on routine, yet summer vacation tends to have me throwing routine and order [...]

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For the last couple of months, I have been collaborating with Jason Hester, a new intern on our Knowbility staff.  We have come up with a survey that we hope will give us some user’s experiences and perspectives with regard to accessibility.  As our efforts to attain universal accessibility expand, we must continue to develop [...]

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Recently, Apple came out with their newest version of the iPhone, called the iPhone 3GS.  I am sure there are many interesting new features of this product, but the one that is most fascinating to me is their built-in accessibility.  How do you make a phone with a touch screen accessible for people who cannot [...]

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This week has been one of change for my family and I with regard to our home network, telephone and television.  We decided to try AT&T’s U-verse service, which combines all of those products into one package.  The technician was at our home installing everything for about 5 hours.  Honestly, when the TV, phone and [...]

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With all of the talk about social media everywhere, including this blog, sometimes even those of us with disabilities forget to consider who may be left out.  Yes there are various tools that make it easier and in some cases possible for the disabled to use specific social networks, but have we covered everyone and [...]

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Lately there has been tons of chatter everywhere about twitter.  From television and radio, to magazines and newspapers, to podcasts from Freedom Scientific and Serotek.  I have to admit to being reenergized about twitter after all the buzz!  I had been mostly a Facebooker, kind of updating my twitter status haphazardly, but not very consistently, [...]

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Having access to online activities is no longer just a cool pastime…it is a necessity for equal education, employment and citizen interaction with government.  If you haven’t ever tried operating a mouse without the use of your arms, read a website without your eyes, or listen to a webcast without hearing it, you may never [...]

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A few months ago, I posted a blog entry about solving captchas.  I sited a service that works through FireFox called Webvism, which made captcha solving a breeze.  The only catch for me was that I am a comfortable Internet Explorer user and had to have both that browser as well as FireFox loaded onto [...]

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