Shownotes I took the opportunity to chat with Adam Curry at the expo about accessibility and he made some extremely positive comments on the Daily Source Code. Thanks, Adam. We’re looking forward to a brighter future of participation in all that Podshow has to offer the podcasting community. Apologies for the windy weather audio artifacts… Finish Reading Chatting with Adam Curry at the Expo

Karen shares with us the news of her retired guide dog’s passing away yesterday along with a comforting story about animals who pass out of this world into the next. Condolences to Karen for her loss! This morning I received some sad news from a close friend of ours. Myprevious dog guide Chanel passed away… Finish Reading A Tribute to Chanel

Digg is an interactive technology news site where the users get to decide which stories do and don’t make the cut. The staff at Digg describe their service as follows: Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit storiesfor review, but rather than… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Digging for Accessible Registration at Digg.com

Shownotes UltraHost Web hosting for the blind community and beyond! GoDaddy Does not allow blind people to order their services online. Please avoid doing business with the company until they fix this. TicketMaster Also does not allow blind people to order online. Even worse here as we are forced to miss out on all discounts… Finish Reading Visual Verification Lockout: Please Don’t GoDaddy!

Shownotes If you are a decision maker in a company that is being asked to become accessible to potential customers with disabilities, following the ADMIT approach will allow you to rise up from the cold, dark abyss of exclusion, inaccessibility and isolation into the bright, sunny promised land of inclusion, accessibility and participation. As always,… Finish Reading Increasing Accessibility: The ADMIT Approach

We have just discovered that AOL has recently made its signup process for the AIM service accessible by allowing the blind to use an audio based CAPTCHA (visual verification) system to hear the characters to be entered into the edit box in order to create an account. Congratulations AOL! Thanks for doing the right thing… Finish Reading AOL AIMs Higher by Providing Audio Challenge / Response During Signup

Huge welcome to everyone visiting Blind Access Journal after listening to me chat for a few minutes about accessibility on This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte live from the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference. It was an incredible honor to be in the TWiT hotseat and the entire expo was fantastic! Huge thanks… Finish Reading Welcome TWiT Listeners!

Approximately three days after being locked out of the ability to post new articles to his blog, Steve Bauer, the blind Blogger user featured in the original story, received a response indicating that his blog was manually reviewed and will no longer be classified as spam. He confirms he is now able to post. While… Finish Reading Update on Google’s Censorship of Blind Bloggers

Listen as I chat with a visually impaired business man, meet an attorney, hang out with one of the Podcast Outlaws and chat with Joe from Yahoo about the need for a real solution to their inaccessible visual verification, all while traveling from Phoenix to Ontario, California to attend the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting… Finish Reading Flight to the Podcasting Expo – A Long Sound Seeing Tour

Thanks go to Kelly Pierce for the introduction of this article below. It was very nice to meet with Jason Lee at the expo. I was surfing and found this article describing Darrell’s efforts at the portable media conference in California. I thought everyone would be interested in it. Kelly All Headline News, Canada Saturday,… Finish Reading Journalist Advocates Better Online Access For Blind