Adobe Systems INC. provides a variety of tools that are used around the world.  Websites are utilizing flash content to make the internet experience more fun and interactive for users.  Many are putting their content into protected PDF files, even taking it a step further and using this format for applications or forms that can [...]

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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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Six years ago, I worked for Time Warner Cable, one of our local cable providers.  Time Warner is also partnered with AOL, therefore working there meant I had to use that service for my office e-mail.  Unfortunately, AOL was very inaccessible, they used a stand alone software that requires use of the mouse to get [...]

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Ok, so I feel like a bad Mom and I’ll tell you why.  Many kids by the time they are my daughter’s age have had some experience on a computer, learning how to use a mouse and can play some simple games on it.  Not to say that my daughter cannot do this, actually she [...]

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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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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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At midnight tonight, I know of at least one of my local stations that is going all digital and will no longer broadcast an analog signal.  Congress delayed the deadline until June of this year, but some stations are prepared and are going to embrace this new way of broadcasting sooner rather than later.  You [...]

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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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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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