Let me just make it crystal clear right now that I fully expect our families and those whom consider themselves our real, true friends to take every possible opportunity to help us advocate for accessibility! This includes taking all actions requested here on the journal as well as others not directly stated as needed to… Finish Reading Our Real True Friends!

Karen and I have just started a wedding blog where you can see how our plans are coming along and provide some useful input. Since Google now deliberately prevents blind Blogger users from creating new blogs, I have implemented this one using the WordPress blogging application, so you might notice some minor differences. Enjoy and,… Finish Reading Check Out Our Wedding Blog!

I wrote the following letter to OfficeMax customer service conveying my feelings about a positive experience at one of the company’s local retail stores this afternoon and asking that the company make its web site accessible. Please comment about your own experiences with Office Max and send additional e-mail to the company asking for better… Finish Reading OfficeMax: Excellent Local Store Shopping Experience, but Web Site Accessibility Needed

We are urging all blind Internet users to write Blogger support requesting the immediate removal of the visual verification requirement for creating new blogs until a reasonably accessible alternative can be implemented that meets the needs of all human beings without excluding those whom happen to be blind. The purpose of visual verification is to… Finish Reading Write Blogger Support: Ask Google to Stop Harming the Blind Through Visual Verification!

We have recently learned that Google now requires visual verification during the process of creating a new blog on blogger.com. Despite our ongoing attempts to communicate with Google about the need for accessibility, no accessible alternative has been provided for this new instance of visual verification. Whereas a blind user was once able to create… Finish Reading Google: Stop Hurting Us!

JAWS 6.1 was just released this afternoon. Sadly, this upgrade has crippled support for MSN Messenger 6.2 and does not work well at all with the newest MSN Messenger 7.0 released just yesterday! There are other examples (ACT, Goldmine, Quicken) of applications for which support was previously created, but allowed to fall by the wayside… Finish Reading Screen Reading in the Real World: The Importance of Enhancing and Maintaining Support for Critical Computer Software Applications

This evening, Karen and I are excited to announce that we became engaged after she accepted my live marriage proposal on Jeff Bishop’s The Desert Skies radio show on ACB Radio Interactive. Jeff and I planned this show for almost an entire week while managing to keep Karen completely in the dark regarding the purpose… Finish Reading Live Marriage Proposal: Karen and I Are now Engaged!