Sarah Alawami has started a petition asking MySpace to make their CAPTCHA accessible to the blind and visually impaired. We ask you to sign this important petition right away!
We have received a request from one of the ReCAPTCHA programmers to perform some testing in an attempt to improve the usability of their audio playback alternative. Once again, this is our opportunity to provide feedback that can result in a direct increase in the accessibility of CAPTCHA. Let’s all step up to the plate… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Please Help Test ReCAPTCHA Audio Playback
We have received numerous reports from blind users who are unable to use Twitter’s audio CAPTCHA for the past several days. We ask as many of you as possible to visit Twitter, try the audio CAPTCHA and report your results in this ticket opened with Twitter’s customer support team. If you’re already signed into Twitter,… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Trouble with Audio CAPTCHA on Twitter
AFB’s AccessWorld Magazine is conducting a survey to find out how people with vision loss access their mobile telephones. You are invited to participate by completing this survey and providing your feedback.
The Bloglines people have just come out with their beta representing the future of the service. As it stands, things don’t look very good for us blind folks with respect to its continued accessibility. Once we lose Bloglines, there will be no accessible, web based RSS feed aggregator for blind people! Let’s all urgently provide… Finish Reading Urgent: Bloglines May Soon Become Inaccessible!
If you have been looking for easy to use, fully accessible online television listings, your search is over! The TV Guide Wireless service for mobile PDA and smart phone users is just the ticket. Simply select the TV Listings link, enter your zip code and select your provider to find out what’s on TV right… Finish Reading TV Guide Wireless – At Last, Accessible Online TV Listings!
http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe Version 2.0Released August 25, 2007 Major programming and word processing enhancements have raised the version from 1.2 to 2.0. EdSharp is now a text editor, file converter, coding environment, and mini word processor! Fixes and improvements are documented below. Jamal Fixed the Jump command not recognizing a column as well as line number.Fixed regular… Finish Reading EdSharp 2.0 released
If you’re blind or severely visually impaired, imagine that you wake up one day to find… You compose an e-mail to your sister, only to discover you can’t send it due to a visual CAPTCHA that provides no audio playback or other reasonable accomodation. A telephone number is given for visually impaired users. After waiting… Finish Reading Imagine The Dark Future of CAPTCHA and Multifactor Authentication for the Blind
The folks at Twitter have now added an audio CAPTCHA to their signup process, thus affording blind and visually impaired people the opportunity to register and participate alongside their sighted peers. See New: Accessible Captcha with Recaptcha for all the exciting details.
ACB Radio Interactive listeners now have an alternate listening option, thanks to additional streaming bandwidth provided by Paul Merrell. Please feel free to utilize this option at any time in cases where you experience any breakup, buffering or outage of the primary broadband stream. Listen to ACB Radio Interactive’s Alternate Broad Band Stream with Windows… Finish Reading Alternate ACB Radio Interactive Broadband Listening Stream Now Available