Steve Bauer, host of the Smooth Jazz U.S.A. show on ACB Radio Interactive tells us about his experience as a blind person dealing with word verification while setting up a blog at Blogger, only to have it classified as spam and thus locked out of posting new articles to his own blog! We now have… Finish Reading Google’s Censorship of Blind Bloggers: First Confirmed Case!

Here is a creative twist on iPodder’s new name. This poem is a collaboration by Karen, Tina and Darrell. Get your Juice Receiver today, You can squeeze it in many ways. Access is easy & fast, Your juice receiver will last. You can download information at anytime, It is much sweeter than a lime! It… Finish Reading The Squeeze on the Juice Receiver

Check out this brief summary of the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference where many new friends were made in the podcasting community. Thanks go especially to Allison, Steve and all the others who have made a lot of potential new opportunities to evangelize accessibility possible! Download and Listen

Shownotes Apologies for the brief shownotes. Much more was actually covered, so listen! Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code #275 on the Licensed Music Crackdown From the not at all surprised department: the big boys at RIAA and similar licensing organizations are trying to crash the party and suck out all the fun… We won’t let… Finish Reading Topic Mashup: Tucson Trip, Music Crackdown, Amazon.com Inaccessibility, Expo Prep, Dial-A-Ride and More

Blind Access Journal was completely unavailable for approximately thirty hours from Sunday afternoon through Monday evening due to a total outage of UltraHost, the web hosting provider on which we rely. I received the following note from Jeff, the owner of UltraHost, on Monday in response to my status request on resolution of the ongoing… Finish Reading The Day After the Big Outage

Jeff Bishop of The Desert Skies has been working with Amazon this morning. It seems the accessibility issue may be a side effect of a problem the company considers to be serious, thus a team of developers has already begun work on a prompt resolution. Hello Everyone, This has now been given very high priority… Finish Reading Update: Amazon.com May Tear Down Its New "No Blind People Allowed" Sign in the Very Near Future

We just received and verified some extremely disturbing news on the inaccessibility front. It seems Amazon.com has given the blind a rather unwelcome present for the Holiday Season in the form of yet another of the ever increasing “No Blind People Allowed” signs. Blind users of the JAWS screen reader developed by Freedom Scientific, the… Finish Reading Amazon.com Puts Up a "No Blind People Allowed" Sign for the Holidays

Last month, The information technology department at the state of Massachusetts announced it would soon initiate a move to the use of open source Office applications and the associated Open Document Format as the standard of choice for conducting state business. Disability related organizations, including the National Federation of the Blind, have gone on record… Finish Reading Massachusetts’ Move to Open Source Office Software: Are there major accessibility implications?

Thanks to the new Comment Moderation feature, it is now possible to safely resume the posting of comments to Blind Access Journal! Each comment will be submitted for approval by the moderator before being published for all to see. Please, do comment away! Enjoy.

Listen to The Desert Skies tonight on ACB Radio Interactive where Jeff Bishop will be spinning a triple-play of Natalie Brown’s excellent, podsafe music. The show is on between 6:00 and 8:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, that’s 02:00 to 04:00 UTC. Don’t miss it! Download and Listen