We wish you a happy, more accessible New Year in 2005! Let’s resolve to take some positive, definitive action in the new year to improve our overall condition as blind people through the enhancement of information access and public transportation options.
How frustrated would you be if you bought a piece of relatively complex electronic equipment only to receive absolutely no documentation as to how to use it effectively? Well, this happens all the time to those of us who happen to be blind. Even worse, it happens not only with mainstream companies, but also with… Finish Reading Inaccessible Documentation for Blindness Related Products!
We wish you a very merry, accessible Christmas!
I love being the first to discover something and release information about it to the rest of the world, especially since that rarely happens for me. It happened this time and I even posted a quick note to a couple of the blindness related mailing lists. Freedom Scientific has released the OpenBook 7.02 update sometime… Finish Reading Extra, Extra, Read All About It! OpenBook 7.02 released today!
I just tried creating a Google account to facilitate participation in groups and other services. I was stopped dead in my tracks for one and only one reason; blindness! See, like many web sites, the creation of a Google account requires typing text shown in a verification graphic. No audio alternative is provided for this… Finish Reading Google’s Inaccessible Account Creation Process!
Bookshare is a revolutionary service that provides tens of thousands of accessible electronic books to subscribers who are blind or have other print reading disabilities. Bookshare volunteers scan printed books, perform optical character recognition, clean the text and publish their results for subscribers to download and read on their computers and portable reading devices. The… Finish Reading Bookshare.org: Excellent Example of Accessibility!
Today Karen contacted the Talking Book Library to have her NLS services transferred or reestablished. She had tried this in the past without success: receiving paperwork which was only in print and thus lost and never completed. For anyone who does not already know about this service, the National Library Service for the Blind and… Finish Reading Accessibility Issues at the Talking Book Library!
I am writing today about the experiences my girlfriend and I constantly encounter when trying to receive packages shipped to us through companies such as the Postal Service and UPS. Just as is the case with most of life, there are special obstacles with which we must deal as blind people. I hope the sharing… Finish Reading Accessible package delivery?
Wireless network technology is revolutionary! Connect a wireless (Wi-Fi) router or access point to your local area network, set up one or more laptop computers with built-in or externally connected wireless network adapters, and you’re free to use the Internet or access resources such as files and printers connected to other computers on your network.… Finish Reading Accessible wireless security!