As part of a project called AccessWorks, Knowbility has hired people with disabilities to perform web site accessibility assessment, research employment related topics on the web, and to blog about their experiences. While our interns have found a great deal of documentation out there about barriers to accessing information online, much less is available about […]
Andrew Kirkpatrick from Adobe had a brilliant idea for doing two good things at once. He wanted to honor John Slatin’s memory by spreading the accessibility gospel and to help Anna, John’s best beloved meet the enormous expenses they incurred through John’s illness. Andrew came up with the John Slatin Accessibility Fund. […]
I am stunned by the passing of John Slatin, beloved colleague and mentor to me and so many others. John died on March 24th, 2008 of leukemia and left family, friends and colleagues devastated by the loss. Despite his long illness, we continued to believe that he would remain among us as a […]
There were more accessibility panels, and mentions of accessibility in other presentations than at any other time that I recall. Susan Gerhart is a software engineer who was at SXSW for the first time as a panelist. She has lost her sight to eye disease over the past several years and is living […]
Kelsey Ruger convinced me that Knowbility needed to blog as a way to participate in and share all the great momentum around accessibility these days. But to start a blog during SXSW was one of the least thought-through things I have done in a while. Sooooo much is happening and time to write […]
Feeling like we’ve completed a marathon, Knowbility staff is reviewing the wonderful experiences of SXSW Interactive and CSUN Assistive Technology conferences. Will post reflections and panel followup, so please check in.
Be sure to stop by the booth at the trade show today at noon. Can’t miss us we are right in the front. #
If you get a chance be sure to checkout @feather ’s "Everything I know about Accessibility I learned from Star Wars" panel at 11:30. #
Core Conversations: How Accessible Should Your Site Be? […]
After ten years of evangelizing, training, and developing community around the critical notion that technology should be designed to be available and usable by everyone, Knowbility has invited several members of our community to weigh in on the current state of technology inclusion.
How is the industry doing? Are we nearer to reaching accessibility goals? What […]
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