Shownotes Note to self and warning to everyone: don’t accept software from strangers! Recovering from both a computer and a biological virus… Natalie Brown Thanks for the excellent ID! It now begins the show. Anyone else want to supply one? Fix for crackling speech from Sound Blaster Live cards. Check out this Freedom Scientific Technical… Finish Reading Phoenix Rising Out of the Ashes!
A new trojan horse executable with the name google_accessibility.exe is making the rounds. Purporting to enable the blind and visually impaired to work around Google’s inaccessible visual verification scheme, it actually corrupts the data on the attacked system’s hard drives, rendering such systems inaccessible and effectively useless. In addition, all data on any mapped drives… Finish Reading Red Alert: New GoogleAccessibility Trojan Horse Targets Blind and Visually Impaired for Disaster!
My computer was killed last night. I just learned from one of my sighted coworkers that we’re going to need to perform a complete operating system reinstall! Thankfully, I backed up most of my important data on another system, so the loss is not catestrophic. What happened and why? Stay tuned. An Ancestor ate my… Finish Reading An Ancestor Got My Computer!
Dear Leo, Thank you for allowing me to chat a bit about accessibility on TWiT #30 from the podcasting expo. I hope there may be future opportunities to work with you to get some serious play on accessibility issues as there are potentially disastrous consequences of inaccessible technology for those of us with disabilities, whom… Finish Reading Asking Leo Laporte for Help with Digg.com Inaccessibility
Shownotes Listen to this tutorial covering the download, installation and use of Juice Receiver with the JAWS screen reader. It should also serve as an introductory demonstration of the use of screen reading technology by the blind. Get Juice Receiver from Jeff Bishop Check out Jeff’s site for the quickest and easiest way to download… Finish Reading Juice Receiver Tutorial and Screen Reading Demonstration
Shownotes Listen to Karen and I talk about the real meaning of Thanksgiving Day, discuss the recent passing away of Karen’s retired guide dog Chanel, review plans for our upcoming Christmas trip to New England, recommend a few reasonably accessible web sites to meet your online Christmas shopping needs and much more. Announcements and Links:… Finish Reading Happy Thanksgiving!
Karen reminds us to keep these quotes in mind as we work tirelessly to retain and enhance our access to the world around us. Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. -Goethe The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.… Finish Reading Good Quotes for Accessibility Evangelism
Some in the technology industry justify the ongoing inaccessibility of their visual verification schemes due to the claimed “expense” of implementing solutions such as audio CAPTCHA. Let’s evaluate a potential solution that could be built entirely on open source or otherwise easily available technologies at a sufficiently low cost to insist upon its implementation. This… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Potential New Audio CAPTCHA Solution
Check out the new Accessibility for people with disabilities topic on the Friends in Tech feedback forum. Thanks, Friends in Tech, for getting this right! Please keep up the great work. Thanks, FIT podcasters, for NOT implementing visual verification, accessible or otherwise, to your forum registration process! It was very nice to meetsome of you… Finish Reading Friends in Tech Gets Accessibility Right!
Digg is an experiment in the collection and dissemination of information where the users, not an editorial staff, get to decide what is news worthy. Sadly, if you’re blind, you don’t get to help make those decisions due to an inaccessible visual verification test that must be passed not only at account creation but also… Finish Reading Visual Verification: Digg.com Barrs the Blind from Submitting New Stories!