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Demonstration: Guide Accessifies the Addition of Components to Salesforce Experience Cloud Site Pages

October 13, 2025 • Darrell Hilliker

At the intersection of the Salesforce ecosystem and the accessibility community, it has been long known that Experience Builder contains task-blocking accessibility issues that hold many disabled people back from being able to perform important job duties including site administration and content management. While the company continues efforts to improve the accessibility of Experience Builder,… Finish Reading Demonstration: Guide Accessifies the Addition of Components to Salesforce Experience Cloud Site Pages

Categories: accessibility, assistive technology, technology, thought provoker, Uncategorized, video, web accessibility

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Uncovering the Accessibility of Tabs in Google Docs

June 5, 2025 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

Starting all the way back in April of 2024, Google announced a new tabs feature for Google Docs, providing another way of organizing information in documents similar to that already found in spreadsheets. Soon after that, as the new feature rolled out over the next six months, a support article entitled Use document tabs in… Finish Reading Uncovering the Accessibility of Tabs in Google Docs

Categories: accessibility, documentation, guides, technology, tips, web accessibility

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Unlocking the Power of AI

March 20, 2025 • Darrell Hilliker

Unlocking the Power of AI Presented by the National Federation of the Blind of Arizona The future is here, and it’s smarter than ever. The National Federation of the Blind of Arizona is excited to host our first-ever AI webinar: a deep dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence and how it’s transforming accessibility for… Finish Reading Unlocking the Power of AI

Categories: accessibility, assistive technology, National Federation of the Blind, technology

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How a “Temporary Error” Encouraged Me to Meet the GMail Standard View Challenge

October 14, 2021 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

It was one of those Mondays… No, wait. It was actually Tuesday morning. I opened my work GMail and pressed the button to switch to Basic HTML view only to encounter a temporary error that stopped me in my tracks! I had dabbled in GMail’s Standard view from time to time, but I always returned… Finish Reading How a “Temporary Error” Encouraged Me to Meet the GMail Standard View Challenge

Categories: accessibility, technology, tips • Tags: GMail

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F6 Is Your Friend

June 20, 2021 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

From enterprise collaboration software to web browsers, the little-known F6 keyboard shortcut can do many things that make our lives as blind computer users much easier and more productive. In Slack F6 moves between the major portions of the window, such as channel navigation and workspace selection. It is, in fact, virtually impossible to access… Finish Reading F6 Is Your Friend

Categories: accessibility, assistive technology, documentation, technology, tips

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The Twelve Inaccessibilities of Christmas

December 21, 2018 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

In this approximately 6-minute podcast, Allison and Darrell Hilliker sing their take on the twelve days of Christmas. Listen or pause: The Twelve Inaccessibilities of Christmas Download: The Twelve Inaccessibilities of Christmas The Twelve Inaccessibilities of Christmas On the first day of Christmas, the developers gave to me: a mouse click only menu tree. On… Finish Reading The Twelve Inaccessibilities of Christmas

Categories: accessibility, advocacy, podcast

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Power On: Exploring the Elements of a Talking TV

June 28, 2018 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

In this approximately 39-minute podcast, Allison, Darrell and Arabella Hilliker explore and demonstrate some of the accessibility features of the Element ELEFW195 19″ 720p 60Hz LED HDTV. Listen or pause: Element ELEFW195 Talking TV Demo Download: Element ELEFW195 Talking TV Demo We thank Aira agent David for the descriptive labels and mapping of the accompanying… Finish Reading Power On: Exploring the Elements of a Talking TV

Categories: accessibility, assistive technology, podcast

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Random Accessibility Thoughts: We Blind People Need to Change the Path of Least Resistance

May 20, 2018 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

When I was 13 years old, all the way back in 1986, I learned exactly how horrible some people were when I found out the principal of my local high school was not going to let me enroll because of my blindness. She wondered things like, “how would he use the bathroom” and thought I… Finish Reading Random Accessibility Thoughts: We Blind People Need to Change the Path of Least Resistance

Categories: accessibility, advocacy, discrimination, human rights, opinion, thought provoker

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Redefining Access: Questions to Ponder in the Age of Remote Assistance

March 29, 2018 • Allison Hilliker

Overview There is an area of assistive technology that has recently been gaining momentum, and I would like to explore what that means for us as blind people. We are seeing an emergence of platforms that allow individuals to virtually connect with sighted assistants. Users refer to this category of technology by different terms such… Finish Reading Redefining Access: Questions to Ponder in the Age of Remote Assistance

Categories: accessibility, advocacy, assistive technology, employment, opinion, technology, thought provoker

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Apple Listens, Sometimes, and Advocacy Can Be Worth Doing

November 10, 2017 • Darrell Shandrow Hilliker

When Apple released iOS 11 on Sept. 19, it dealt a nasty surprise in the email inboxes of those of us whom happen to be blind. A change in VoiceOver meant that, everytime we used a feature intended to help us increase our productivity, we ran the risk of deleting emails we wanted to keep.… Finish Reading Apple Listens, Sometimes, and Advocacy Can Be Worth Doing

Categories: accessibility, advocacy, feedback, iPhone, opinion

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