Approximately three days after being locked out of the ability to post new articles to his blog, Steve Bauer, the blind Blogger user featured in the original story, received a response indicating that his blog was manually reviewed and will no longer be classified as spam. He confirms he is now able to post. While… Finish Reading Update on Google’s Censorship of Blind Bloggers
Listen as I chat with a visually impaired business man, meet an attorney, hang out with one of the Podcast Outlaws and chat with Joe from Yahoo about the need for a real solution to their inaccessible visual verification, all while traveling from Phoenix to Ontario, California to attend the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting… Finish Reading Flight to the Podcasting Expo – A Long Sound Seeing Tour
Thanks go to Kelly Pierce for the introduction of this article below. It was very nice to meet with Jason Lee at the expo. I was surfing and found this article describing Darrell’s efforts at the portable media conference in California. I thought everyone would be interested in it. Kelly All Headline News, Canada Saturday,… Finish Reading Journalist Advocates Better Online Access For Blind
Steve Bauer, host of the Smooth Jazz U.S.A. show on ACB Radio Interactive tells us about his experience as a blind person dealing with word verification while setting up a blog at Blogger, only to have it classified as spam and thus locked out of posting new articles to his own blog! We now have… Finish Reading Google’s Censorship of Blind Bloggers: First Confirmed Case!
Here is a creative twist on iPodder’s new name. This poem is a collaboration by Karen, Tina and Darrell. Get your Juice Receiver today, You can squeeze it in many ways. Access is easy & fast, Your juice receiver will last. You can download information at anytime, It is much sweeter than a lime! It… Finish Reading The Squeeze on the Juice Receiver
Check out this brief summary of the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference where many new friends were made in the podcasting community. Thanks go especially to Allison, Steve and all the others who have made a lot of potential new opportunities to evangelize accessibility possible! Download and Listen
Shownotes Apologies for the brief shownotes. Much more was actually covered, so listen! Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code #275 on the Licensed Music Crackdown From the not at all surprised department: the big boys at RIAA and similar licensing organizations are trying to crash the party and suck out all the fun… We won’t let… Finish Reading Topic Mashup: Tucson Trip, Music Crackdown, Amazon.com Inaccessibility, Expo Prep, Dial-A-Ride and More
Blind Access Journal was completely unavailable for approximately thirty hours from Sunday afternoon through Monday evening due to a total outage of UltraHost, the web hosting provider on which we rely. I received the following note from Jeff, the owner of UltraHost, on Monday in response to my status request on resolution of the ongoing… Finish Reading The Day After the Big Outage
Jeff Bishop of The Desert Skies has been working with Amazon this morning. It seems the accessibility issue may be a side effect of a problem the company considers to be serious, thus a team of developers has already begun work on a prompt resolution. Hello Everyone, This has now been given very high priority… Finish Reading Update: Amazon.com May Tear Down Its New "No Blind People Allowed" Sign in the Very Near Future
We just received and verified some extremely disturbing news on the inaccessibility front. It seems Amazon.com has given the blind a rather unwelcome present for the Holiday Season in the form of yet another of the ever increasing “No Blind People Allowed” signs. Blind users of the JAWS screen reader developed by Freedom Scientific, the… Finish Reading Amazon.com Puts Up a "No Blind People Allowed" Sign for the Holidays