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Sirius Finally Gets Serious About Allowing Blind People to Listen to the Radio

June 28, 2006 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

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

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Blank Messenger History, trouble with edit fields in HTML forms mode and other JAWS quirkiness with Windows profiles.

June 26, 2006 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

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.

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Sirius Satellite Radio Erects A "No Blind People Allowed" Sign

June 14, 2006 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

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

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