Some of you may have noticed that, for a short time, the counter near the bottom of the home page was displaying an inaccurate number of hits to the site. It appears the data used by this tool became reset to 0 late yesterday night or early this morning. This problem has been corrected by… Finish Reading Web Site Counter Reset
Joani from the Carroll Center for the Blind reports that Microsoft has decided to develop tools to support ODF. See Microsoft to Support ODF for more information. I am very happy to see that Joani has returned to us on the pages of the All About Access blog.
The American Council of the Blind is once again providing live coverage of its annual convention via its ACB Radio streaming Internet broadcast outlet. Coverage of official convention business can be found on ACB Radio Mainstream while the more spontaneous environment of the convention exhibit hall may be found on ACB Radio Interactive during the… Finish Reading Listen to Live ACB Convention Coverage!
Shownotes Listen as Karen and I chat about everything from our Independence Day weekend celebration with the Bishop family to the future of the podcast. Enjoy and please give us your thoughts. Download and Listen
We have recently learned that John Wilson has made his “from the Keyboard” tutorials, previously sold by National Braille Press, available online free of charge. Unfortunately, it appears these materials may not be updated further. We thank John for making this information available to all.
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
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.
Many of you may have received three copies of the wedding toast episode. There was a Blogger error last night that caused two copies of the post to publish without appearing in the back end database. When the blog was republished this morning, both posts disappeared, requiring me to post yet a third copy. This… Finish Reading Duplicated Wedding Toast Show
I thank Kevin McFan for the interview on his Variety Show last night where we discussed everything from accessibility advocacy and visual verification to the philosophy of the National Federation of the Blind. I believe I was rather candid.
Shownotes Karen’s sister, Tara, presented a wonderful wedding toast. Enjoy. Download and Listen