Hello Everyone, This week, we bring you a special one hour Main Menu Live. Get answers to your blindness technology questions from our panel of experts. Caroline Congdon, Don Barrett and Rick Harmon will be joining us for this live show. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into… Finish Reading Coming Up on Main Menu for the Week of January 30
Allison reports the latest entry on the OpenDNS Blog advocating use of audio CAPTCHA to make services available to everyone, including the blind and visually impaired, and offering to provide webmasters with assistance in the implementation of the technology. We appreciate not only the audio CAPTCHA on OpenDNS, but also their active advocacy on our… Finish Reading Visual Verification: OpenDNS Advocates Use of Audio CAPTCHA and Offers to Help Webmasters Implement the Technology
John Roberts, a product Vice President of OpenDNS, reports that the organization has now implemented an audio CAPTCHA to make its protected services accessible to blind and visually impaired users. We tested the CacheCheck and Adult Site Checker, finding the audio CAPTCHA to be both easy to use and reliable. We thank OpenDNS for providing… Finish Reading Visual Verification: OpenDNS Adds Audio CAPTCHA, Tears Down "No Blind People Allowed" Sign
We have just received a disturbing report from Vanja Svajcer on the SophosLabs security blog indicating that a recently distributed “unofficial” build of Freedom Scientific’s JAWS 9.0 screen reader making the rounds on various blindness related mailing lists contains dangerous code that disables the use of JAWS and most other screen readers. In his article,… Finish Reading Blind computer users struck by a very unusual Trojan attack
On this day commemorating Martin Luther King’s birthday, I thought I would try my hand at penning an I Have a Dream speech of my own. I will recite this speech for the first time on the Desert Cafe show coming up at 22:00 UTC on ACB Radio Interactive today. I have a dream that…… Finish Reading I Have a Dream, Too…
This is an announcement posted publicly to describe all the incredible enhancements in store for those of us who own the Victor Reader Stream. Karen and I have one of these excellent devices, and if you don't yet have a portable accessible electronic book reader, we would strongly recommend Victor Reader Stream! Dear Victor Reader… Finish Reading HumanWare Victor Reader Stream News from Gerry Chevalier, Product Manager
Hello Everyone, Don’t miss another Desert Cafe coming up at 22:00 UTC (2:00 PM Pacific, 3:00 PM Mountain, 4:00 PM Central or 5:00 PM Eastern time) on Monday, January 21! For most of you, that’s tomorrow afternoon! Karen’s sister and brother-in-law came down for a short visit, and we’ll be talking about that as… Finish Reading Coming Up on the Desert Cafe for Monday, January 21 at 22:00 UTC
I just finished reading Independent Street : Is Your Web Site Blind-Friendly? How to Avoid a Lawsuit by Wendy Bounds. While Wendy provided a good overview of the issues surrounding the law and the need for web site accessibility, I found many of the comments to be rather shocking! How do we effectively carry out… Finish Reading How Do We Effectively Educate the Public and Combat False Assumptions About Accessibility?
Hello Everyone, This week, on a two hour Main Menu, Dean Martineau explains the use of the laptop keyboard layout and provides some useful keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Darrell Shandrow presents part 1 of a demonstration of the ID Mate OMNI accessible bar code scanner from Envision America. Would you… Finish Reading Coming up on Main Menu for the week of January 16
Now that Newsgator has freely opened virtually all its software and web-based RSS aggregation services to everyone, a number of us decided to check out the new offerings for their accessibility to the blind and visually impaired. While we found that the Newsgator Online web-based RSS reader (the company’s answer to Bloglines) is wonderfully accessible… Finish Reading Newsgator Asked to Make FeedDemon Stand-Alone RSS Reader Accessible