Accessible Multimedia — Skills for Access

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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WaSP Forms Accessibility Task Force

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.

Matt Baily’s Web Site Accessibility Blog

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.

Speakwire — Online RSS Reader

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)

Curb Cut Lives!

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.