Until recently I have been passive-aggressive on the entire visual verification issue, but today while attempting to reply to e-mail in Yahoo! Mail I was presented with Sender Verification. This is visual verification that yahoo is now placing on *every* outgoing e-mail you send. I have verified it is every e-mail by sending a very… Finish Reading Blind Users v. the Internet
Shownotes Only two full days till Christmas begins! Chatting about preparations for Christmas trip. Baby Marin born to Mary Beth and Todd Westward on the morning of Dec. 20, 2005. GoDaddy’s Office of the President shows interest in making their visual verification accessible. How Would You Design a Captcha for the Deaf-Blind? Natalie Brown –… Finish Reading Christmas Preparations, GoDaddy Visual Verification Update, New Baby Marin and More
Shownotes Jeff Bishop reminds us that, ultimately, Podshow should take the lead in fixing their accessibility issues. We must all be very careful when balancing the need to make our own accessibility with the need for the technology industry to become more accessible. Download and Listen
Shownotes We applaud FreedomBox for their willingness to enable access to a major component of the Podsafe Music Network, allowing blindcasters to add tracks to their playlists for downloading and playing on their podcasts. Will Podshow fix their broken HTML code that continues to deny most blind podcasters this capability? Will other screen reader developers… Finish Reading FreedomBox Enables Access to a Major Component of the Podsafe Music Network
Jim, an avid Yahoo! Mail premium subscriber, reports that the company’s latest beta is almost completely inaccessible to those of us whom rely on screen readers. True to form, Yahoo! has not yet chosen to respond to Jim’s concerns. Yahoo! has been ignoring our need for accessible visual verification for a long time now without… Finish Reading Yahoo! Mail May Soon Become Inaccessible
GoDaddy blames me, my users, and everything else they can think of for their problems. Site starts dying after 50GB of transfer. They also try to get me to upgrade to a more expensive plan. Add inaccessible visual verification to this volatile mix and, perhaps, it is a good thing I was unable to complete… Finish Reading The Truth About GoDaddy’s Economy (5GB / 250GB) Plan
Shownotes Karen and I chat about the first anniversary of the journal, Christmas vacation, one of her early Christmas presents, our issues with receiving snail mail, a holiday poem by one of the Seeing Eye instructors and more. Enjoy. Download and Listen
I ask Lainey Feingold for advice on how we might be able to achieve positive settlements of technology accessibility issues. Though I prefer working with the technology industry in a cooperative manner to obtain the accessibility we must ultimately be granted, I am certainly open to considering legal approaches. The issues are just too important… Finish Reading Using Legal Means to Obtain Satisfactory Settlements of Technology Access Issues?
Dear Todd, Merry Christmas to you, your family and all Geek News Central Listeners from Darrell Shandrow of the Blind Access Journal blog and podcast. I just finished listening to your Dec. 13 episode of your podcast, where you mention your willingness to work with your sponsors, such as GoDaddy, to get critical issues resolved.… Finish Reading Visual Verification: I Ask Todd Cochrane to Intercede with GoDaddy to Allow the Blind to Conduct Business
Listen to a short sound seeing tour of some new speedbumps on our street, followed by discussion of my follow up efforts with Podshow on the accessibility of their services, some pontification about our shrinking accessible world and more. Download and Listen