A new domain, BlindWebAccess.com, has now gone live in support of the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition. Visiting this new domain will instantly redirect the user to the petition’s home page. Everyone is welcome to distribute this new domain far and wide, especially when promoting the petition outside the technology oriented media. Thanks go to… Finish Reading Google Accessibility Petition: New BlindWebAccess.com Domain Goes Live

Check out the press release published to the media regarding the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition. If you have not done so already, please sign the petition. After that, please follow the link to the press release and forward it to all associates, friends, relatives, bloggers, podcasters and members of the conventional media for wide… Finish Reading Press Release – Google Asked to Make Its Visual Word Verification Accessible

In the spirit of the speech entitled I Have A Dream as delivered in 1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr. I advocate for the equal access to technology and alternative transportation that we, the blind and visually impaired, must be granted in order to be fully included and able to participate in society on terms… Finish Reading I Have A Dream

As part of the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition, a personalized letter will be written and sent to Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO. Assistance and feedback on the content of this letter is being actively sought from the blind community. Constructive suggestions and even draft content is being accepted at editor@blindaccessjournal.com for potential incorporation into… Finish Reading Help Us Ask Dr. Schmidt to Allow Access to Google’s Word Verification

We at the Blind Access Journal call upon all blind and visually impaired people and those whom care about what happens to us to sign the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition asking Google to provide an accessible alternative to the visual verification scheme that currently locks us out of participation in all the company’s services.… Finish Reading Sign the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition Today

Shownotes Karen records as Bob, myself and the kids hang out in the hot tub outside in below freezing temperatures on Tuesday night, Dec. 27. Download and Listen

Shownotes Listen to our sound seeing tour as we take a trip to Vermont with Karen’s parents Jack and Jo Anne to explore the Montshire Museum of Science. Download and Listen

Google is celebrating the birthday of Louis Braille by providing this Louis Braille Search. Though we thank Google for this gesture, we ask the company’s bright programmers to promptly implement a solution to the inaccessible visual verification scheme it has been using for over one year. In July of 2005, Google promised accessibility within “one… Finish Reading The Irony of Google’s Celebrating Louis Braille’s Birthday While Locking Out the Blind

Shownotes Karen provides all the descriptive commentary as Bob and I go downhill sledding. A great time was had by all! Download and Listen

Shownotes Karen and I wish you all a very accessible, happy and safe New Year! This is our brief 2005 year in review podcast. Enjoy. Karen and I become engaged on April 1. The proposal is the focus of Jeff Bishop’s The Desert Skies radio show on ACB Radio Interactive that Friday night. The show… Finish Reading Happy New Year!