Recently, the newest version of Facebook was unveiled, promising more features and ease of use for everyone.  For the past several months, I have elected to use the mobile version of Facebook, mainly to avoid all of the clutter and headache that I encounter on the main page.  However, many of the features of Facebook [...]

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The New Year brings some fantastic Knowbility events that I want to make you aware of, so that you may either participate, or help us spread the word.  First is our 9th annual AIR Interactive, where teams of web developers are matched with local non-profit Arts organizations and given a month to create an accessible [...]

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I know, iAp isn’t really a word, but it’s the only thing I could think of to call them.  Since Apple’s Ipod touch and iPhone have come out, there has been thousands of applications developed for these portable devices.  These aps can do many things, from telling you what song is playing and its details, [...]

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Earlier this month, a friend from our local Tech Lunch group gave me the idea of starting a Knowbility podcast.  Of course we have our blog, but a podcast would open some other doors and allow us to do some audio demos, interviews, and a host of other fun things.  Another great thing about podcasts [...]

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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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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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This week of course was full of fun at AccessU!  It consisted of two full days and a third day for post conference, as well as some great evening activities.  There was much to learn and fabulous people to talk to and network with.  I was privileged to be involved in the two first days [...]

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Today brings an exciting development in our Facebook adventures, as they announced that they would be working closely with the American Foundation for the Blind to improve their accessibility for the visually impaired!  This is very encouraging news and to me shows that Facebook is committed to serving all of its customers, no matter how [...]

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There is possibly great news for those of us who did not like the newest issue of Facebook unveiled earlier this month!  Apparently, the powers that be have decided to listen to their customer feedback and make some changes!  As I have previously mentioned here, I found the newest Facebook layout to be very inaccessible [...]

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