17 Sep
Posted by Desiree as AcccesU, Accessibility, Daily life, General, standards
You may remember my blog some months ago regarding iPods and some of the barriers I mentioned with Apple’s ITunes, and with the iPod itself. ITunes was virtually not accessible on its own, and a jaws user would have to purchase and use scripts to get the software to function at all, and even with […]
10 Sep
Posted by Sharron as Accessibility, Uncategorized, standards
The Provost Office at the University of Texas continues to send form letters to the hundreds of people who have written in protest of their decision to shut down the Accessibility Institute. Their boilerplate gives lip services to their admiration for the work of John Slatin and invariably ends with this line:
While we will […]
04 Sep
Posted by Desiree as AcccesU, Access Works, Accessibility, General, standards
Last week, the University of Texas at Austin announced that they intended to close the Accessibility Institute, founded by Dr. John Slattin! This came as a big surprise to people both in the local community and many world-wide as well. The University of Texas has always been a leader in research and accessibility was no […]
29 Aug
Posted by Desiree as Accessibility, Daily life, General, W3C, standards
As I have previously stated here, I love to shop on line. One of my favorites used to be eBay, but as I talked about some time ago, they have made some changes to their site that has made shopping there more difficult and tiresome for me using jaws. But there are millions of other […]