In response to my recent attempts to initiate positive dialogue with Sirius Satellite Radio concerning their visual verification scheme, Patrick Reilly, the company’s Senior Vice President of Communications, reported that the issue was resolved on Tuesday night, June 27, through the implementation of an audio CAPTCHA. In answer to Mr. Reilly’s query, Senior Web Producer… Finish Reading Sirius Finally Gets Serious About Allowing Blind People to Listen to the Radio

For quite some time now, I have been dealing with a couple of perplexing, intermittent JAWS issues. First, edit fields in web pages were blank when in forms mode. The text could not be read with the arrow keys, text selection was not spoken and it was impossible to edit using backspace, delete, etc. This… Finish Reading Blank Messenger History, trouble with edit fields in HTML forms mode and other JAWS quirkiness with Windows profiles.

Many of you may have received three copies of the wedding toast episode. There was a Blogger error last night that caused two copies of the post to publish without appearing in the back end database. When the blog was republished this morning, both posts disappeared, requiring me to post yet a third copy. This… Finish Reading Duplicated Wedding Toast Show

I thank Kevin McFan for the interview on his Variety Show last night where we discussed everything from accessibility advocacy and visual verification to the philosophy of the National Federation of the Blind. I believe I was rather candid.

Shownotes Karen’s sister, Tara, presented a wonderful wedding toast. Enjoy. Download and Listen

Shownotes Karen and I sit out on the balcony overlooking the Marina chatting on the last night of our San Diego honeymoon. There will be more coverage of this, too. Stay tuned. Download and Listen

Shownotes As many of you already know, Karen and I became husband and wife on June 3, 2006. We apologize for the long delay, but we are proud to finally bring to you audio coverage of our wedding ceremony. We were married at approximately 7:00 PM aboard the Odyssey in Boston, Massachusetts. Stay tuned for… Finish Reading Wedding Ceremony of Karen and Darrell

We have just learned that Sirius Satellite Radio has implemented an inaccessible CAPTCHA for their online service. This CAPTCHA is required not for initial registration, but for each log in to the service. This CAPTCHA makes the service completely useless to the blind. This action results in a total lock out of blind and visually… Finish Reading Sirius Satellite Radio Erects A "No Blind People Allowed" Sign