It was a Thursday afternoon when I was sitting in the lounge in University Center wondering what to do. I was frantic. I had completed my journalism ethics assignment, copied it to my USB flash drive, then discovered I had left the device at home! I was at school and my completed assignment was at… Finish Reading Remote Access Features in Serotek’s Product Save the Day!
Serotek has just announced that it will no longer charge its customers for a software maintenance agreement (SMA) in order to keep their products updated. This development is, of course, good for consumers in that it eliminates a nagging cost of owning assistive technology. It can, unfortunately, also be bad for us. At this point,… Finish Reading The SMA May be Dying, But I’m Not Celebrating
We already know that Freedom Scientific’s JAWS end user license agreement is not friendly to mainstream developers and testers as they work to implement accessibility into their products, services and web sites. As a follow on to this concern, we now hear from Craig Stuntz who reports that no developer program exists for those who… Finish Reading Delphi Programmer Says Freedom Scientific Does Not Play Nice with the Mainstream Developer Community
Serotek’s Accessible Digital Lifestyle is a hot topic and getting hotter. Here’s your chance to add some sizzle to your life by participating in our online survey and enrolling to win a complete digital lifestyle makeover. Here’s what you can win: ASUS 8G 2 pound Netbook PC with 1 gigabyte of main memory and an… Finish Reading Serotek Summer Sizzle Contest
On January 31, 2008, the Accessibility Is a Right (AIR) Foundation was launched. The foundation’s first initiative is to provide a free screen reader to all blind computer users, or those who would like to be able to access computers, around the world. The blind still suffer at least a 75 percent unemployment rate in… Finish Reading Why Not Enjoy a Little Fresh Air?
Is revisionist history at work in the blind community’s own electronic media outlets? Can important information and the opinions of certain people in the community simply be made to disappear from our public knowledge without comment? It appears, unfortunately, that there may be two clear cases of exactly this sort of thing happening in a… Finish Reading Is Revisionist History at Work in the Blind Community’s Own Online Media Outlets?
I used System Access To Go for the last three hours of my work shift yesterday afternoon to exchange e-mail correspondence and moderate a web-based technical forum. The results were quite impressive; I was able to complete these tasks as efficiently with SA To Go as I normally do using JAWS. It is refreshing to… Finish Reading System Access To Go on the Job
NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: Janelle Schulenberg Tacet Consulting 612-720-1068 janelle@tacetconsulting.com Serotek Makes Web 2.0 Accessible to the Blind Technology Company Introduces SA To Go Minneapolis, Minn. – June 13, 2007 – Serotek Corporation, the leading provider of Internet and digital information accessibility software and services, announces the public beta release of a web… Finish Reading Serotek Releases the World’s First Web-based Access Technology Tool for the Blind
We thank all 430 of you who signed the Save Serotek Petition and countless others who could not sign for your support. We are very glad the lawsuit has now been settled in a reasonable manner for all parties involved.
We here at Blind Access Journal are very glad this matter has finally been settled in a manner that permits both Freedom Scientific and Serotek to continue their business operations and retains the ability of innovators in the field to provide the products and services we must have in order to participate in the world… Finish Reading Freedom Scientific and Serotek Reach Agreement to End Lawsuit