Google Announces Closed Captioning on YouTube

Nov 22, 2009

Google announced this week that automatic closed captioning features will be added to YouTube.

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New Accessibility Developments – Giving Voice to the Web

Nov 1, 2009

Last week saw the emergence of three intriguing technologies in the areas of website vocalization and Web 2.0 usage among people with disabilities.

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Thoughts on RNIB Techshare 2009

Sep 20, 2009

The Royal National Institute of the Blind Techshare 2009 conference has now come to a close. It was great being in London, meeting many respected colleagues in person for the first time and having the privilege to witness some key presentations on the future of accessibility.

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Web Adaptability, Social Media, and Bears

Jul 26, 2009

Leave it to me to read three completely unrelated articles in the past 24 hours, then locate some sort of connection among them. Today’s theme is adaptability.

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The Geometry of Social Media

Jun 21, 2009

A recent Twitter tactic on behalf of the insulin product Levemir raises some valid concerns — some technological, some marketing — which can be evaluated using a Mandelbrotian approach to social media. There are accessibility considerations as well.

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Facebook Accessibility

Apr 11, 2009

A recent blog post by Glenda Watson reported Facebook’s commitment to providing social networking services accessible to people with disabilities. Which is of course a most noble and necessary pursuit.

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Accessible Twitter

Feb 8, 2009

Among the more popular social media tools out there is Twitter, a microblogging site where users type momentary updates in 140 characters or less. Dennis Lembrée has developed an access portal for Twitter intended to better meet the needs of people with disabilities.

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WordPress Accessibility

Jan 16, 2009

Many people write blogs these days, and the number of active blogs seems to grow every day. But what about the blogging software itself — how accessible is something like WordPress? Glenda Watson Hyatt took it upon herself to investigate.

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The Future of Web Accessibility

Nov 28, 2008

About this time of year, we begin to see an increase in articles and blog posts bravely attempting to predict future interests in various industries. The arena comprised of web design and virtual technology is no different.

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Healthcare 2.0

Oct 21, 2008

A recent Newsweek article explores the idea of making electronic health records freely available to family, friends and doctors, applying Web 2.0 concepts of open-source transparency to healthcare. Although there are understandable risks in decentralizing this information, a growing number of practitioners are beginning to embrace this new value model.

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