open and accessible
Skills for Access bills itself as The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Accessible Multimedia for e-learning. I haven’t had time to go all the way through the site, but it looks like it delivers with a lot of substantive content, complete with great case studies as well as in-depth instructions on how to create accessible multimedia using a variety of technologies. (via splintered)
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This is exciting news from the Web Standards Project- a grassroots task force from a well established organization promoting web accessibility and it looks like they have a crack team of experts assembled to tackle the job. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this effort, it should do a lot to encourage awareness of accessibility issues.
There is lots of commentary going on around the horn on this with a good set of links to some of the discussions from Eric Meyer, including a some suggested places to start from Joe Clark.
I have been wandering around online tonight trying to find I’ve missed in the last few months and came across the Web Site Accessibility Blog from Matt Bailey. Here are just a few examples of great posts from his blog: How To: Create Accessible PDF’s, IBM urges US senate for accessibility standards in information technology, and Are Blind Users Able to Blog?.
It looks like the Accessibility Blog is still fairly new so stop by and give Matt a welcome.
Done by the same folks who are behind Speegle, the talking search engine, Speakwire is a free online tool that reads aloud a rss feed. From their press release:
Most people associate computer speech with visually impaired users. I think that is missing the point and we set out to demonstrate just how universal speech is. It’s the nearest eqivalent to a common currency and can be exchanged and undersood as easily. Speech is mightier than the pen.
(via Robin Good)
Hello everyone, after a long hiatus Curb Cut is back in action. Even though I work in a different field now (religious education for youth with disabilities), I haven’t been able to stay away from this stuff and am anxious to get a few posts out there.
Also, I have changed the rss feed to point to a feedburner feed for curbcut. If you are subscribed to any of the old feeds, I think I have set it so it will automatically redirect to the new feed, please let me know if you have any problems with it.
