The Blind Buzz on Accessibility

A selection of VoiceOver keyboard commands | 456 Berea Street for Mac OS,.

Accessibility features – Windows SharePoint Services – Microsoft Office Online

Actuate Addresses Online Statement Accessibility for the Visually Impaired with Xenos Axess – Mozilla Firefox – this system can deliver high volumes of accessible PDF files, according to this article.

Advocacy group for visually impaired | guampdn.com | Pacific Daily News – new group aims to open up life and work opportunities. Meeting on April 17th will include phone accessibility and JAWS demonstrations.

AFB Consulting Webinar on PDF and Assistive Technologies « The BAT Channel

Apple iPhone to soon get long-sought multitasking – iPhone OS 4 will let you run multiple apps at the same time.

Apple will update iPhones, iPads to run more than one program at once

Apple’s iPad Brings Easy Reading to the Blind « Forbes.com’s Booked – why the iPad is exciting some blind readers and is way ahead of the Amazon Kindle.

ATTO: Assistive Technology Training Online to assist elementary school students.

b-f-b Blind Facebook Yahoo! Group –
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BARD Talk – a mailing list concerning the NLS download service in the US.
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BCScan Scan It, Learn About It, Use It – a new online way to organise your life. For more information, listen to
Accessible World Tek Talk presents A Look at BCScan, April 12, 2010 by J.J. Meddaugh

Blind iPad Review – Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind – totatlly blind woman reviews the iPad.

Brailect Can Translate Text Into Braille Or Audio – this concept device is a glove that can be used to read text and convert it to either format.

Breaking news on Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials: DIAGRAM – No Limits to Learning – this is hoped to improve accessibility to images for students with disabilities, and educators providing for them.

C-Desk by AdaptiveVoice – free 15 day trial. The program gives a high-contrast, voiced desktop that is meant to simplify computer use for people who are disabled or elderly.

Call for Presentations for the ATIA 2010 Chicago and ATIA 2011 Orlando Conferences. « ConnSENSE Bulletin

Charities merge to aid the blind – Scotsman.com News – InfoSound news service launched with support from British Wireless for the Blind Fund. 

How to listen to InfoSound. 

[Audio] Latest briefing (April 12th, 2010).

Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology – "Welcome to COAT, a coalition of over 280 national, regional, state, and community-based disability organizations. We advocate for legislative and regulatory safeguards that will ensure full access by people with disabilities to evolving high speed broadband, wireless and other Internet Protocol (IP) technologies."

computer assistive technology abilityhub for disability and disabilities – "Assistive Technology for people with a disability who find operating a computer difficult, maybe even impossible. This web site will direct you to adaptive equipment and alternative methods available for accessing computers "

Creative ZEN X-Fi Style PMP, ZEN Style Series Music Player | Blog | ZiggyTek – news on these affordable audio players.

CTL 2goPC Slate: Windows 7 Tablet (Video) | Blog | ZiggyTek – the spec is not outstanding, but this device has some things the iPad currently lacks, e.g., webcam and Adobe Flash.

Digital Unite – Computer Training for the Over 50s – UK based.

Disabled Ontarians still find barriers to voting – thestar.com – Coyle

Document Accessibility Should Begin at the Author Level – the Web isn’t the whole story – what about other types of document?

Dogs and Islam: The Devil and the Seeing-Eye Dog | Psychology Today – all may not be as it seems on the subject of "unclean" dogs.

Dogs for the Blind | Dogs Training who thought of that idea?

E-Readers and technology to assist the Blind | Good E-Reader Blog – Electronic Reader News and Articles

Easy to See Balloons – Fred’s Head – balloons that light up. Every little helps!

[Audio] EyePod TechnoCast 10 – Larry Lewis of Flying Blind, LLC, talks about optical character recognition (OCR) and introduces AbiSee Products, particularly the EyePal OCR products that use a camera rather than a scanner.

Facebook Works with the Blind on Accessibility | WebProNews

Good50 Low Vision Version – "Good50 is a user-friendly search engine designed for those who are ages 50+. Because of its user-friendly features, Good50 is also beneficial for the whole family including children."

Grave Concerns about a Ban on Dogs in Nottinghamshire Parks – jady_lady – ban on dogs in parks in part of Nottinghamshire, could cause guide dog problems.

Group Travel for Persons with Special Needs – Yahoo! Finance – many opportunities in the USA for people with various disabilities.

HTML5 details element, built-in and bolt-on accessibility – Bruce Lawson’s personal site – possible advantages of HTML5 over scripting and ARIA.

Ideas on Coping With Low Vision by Sharon Noseworthy and members of the Macular Degeneration Support Network

Interviews from CSUN 2010 – NFB – Access Technology Blog

iSpeech – Text to Speech Service – Assistive Technology – online service that can convert text files to speech.

KeySoft 9 0 1 upgrade – HumanWare Canada/English – update your BrailleNote Apex.

Nissan Adding Noise to Make Silent Electric Cars Safe « Nissan Zone – USA and Japan could make this mandatory.

[Audio] PDF Document Reading and Strategies with JAWS and MAGic – 90-minute webinar with instructions for saving.

Registration Mac Academy Workshop – Handy Tech North America – there is a booking form and description here for the 5-day workshop on using VoiceOver with SnowLeopard being held in June.

Review: VI Scientific’s Currency Identifier (and more) “VisionHunt 2.1″ for S60 3rd & 5th edition – Blind Mind News – Unrestricted Access: Versatile apps for camera-pones. Currnecy, colour light source and light light level detection. Works on the Nokia N97 and their are planned versions for other types of phone, including the iPhone.

Screen Reader Tutorial – for users of the Blackboard Learning System.

Self-Expression | Real Coaching Radio Network – technophobic? well, if a blind middle-aged woman not involved in technology can deal with technology, you can too!

SeroTalk Tech Chat 57 – The Three Most Affordable reading Solutions « SeroTalk

Sweeping Landmark Class Action Settlement Paves the Way for Improved Sidewalk Access for People with Disabilities | Accessibility News International – success for Californians with disabilities.

Tactile mind – A book of nude photographs for the blind/vision impaired. ISBN: 978-0-9813431-0-5 produced in toronto,canada. tactilemind@gmail.com, telephone: 416.516.2999. Wrongly described as a magazine in the British Telegraph newspaper, this is a thermoform book of raised erotic images with Braille text. A snip at £150. 

Read the telegraph article ‘Pornographic magazine for the blind launched’

The Mac-cessibility Round Table Podcast – Special Edition #6 – iPhone OS 4.0– The Mac-cessibility Network – News [Lioncourt.com

The Tech Doctor Blog and Podcast - comparative reviews of similar products.The
first podcast looks at the Plextalk Pocket and the Bookport Plus. 

The Tech Doctor Blog and Podcast RSS Feed

Videos Created by Ai Squared « AccessTech News - these promote products such as ZoomText, Victor Reader Stream and Pebble.

Who Wins the Accessibility Election? | S3 Web Design - a web designer comments on the accessibility of the web sites of the major British political parties.

[Book] Windows 7 and Vista Explained – A guide for blind and partially sighted users. Intended to work with whatever access technology you have. Can be pre-ordered for delivery late May. Orders from USA and Canada should be made to National Braille Press.

The Blind Buzz on Accessibility

Accessible World Tek Talk presents A Tutorial on Computer Utilities March 8, 2010

Accessibility – webpublishing.agimo.gov.au – over the next 4 years, the Australian Government wants everyone to graduate from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0, announced the Minister for Finance and – um – de-regulation.

AccessWorld: Technology and People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired – March 2010 Issue

Apple Briefly Mentions Accessibility At Annual Shareholders Meeting « The BAT Channel

Blogger/Blogspot has an inaccessible comment mode – the author finds it easy to access Blogger using the iPod Touch, but then runs into several accessibility barriers.

Change the Background Color in Adobe Reader for Eye-Friendly Contrast – Ergonomics – Lifehacker

DAISY Books of the DAISY2009 Technical Conference Now Available for Download | DAISY Consortium

Don’t Forget Webvisum, Another captcha solving solution – Blind Bargains – Webvisum works with Firefox.

Don’t say “click here”; not everyone will be clicking – Quality Web Tips – please remember that ‘click here’ will be meaningless in a links list.

Easy YouTube caption creator | Accessibility tools, web developer tools, wizards and markup generators | Accessify

Free PDF Reader | nuance.com – smaller than Adobe Reader, supposedly more secure, and can convert PDFs to other file formats.

Freeware outdoes Windows’ built-in system tools – Wkindows Secrets

FSCast Episode 39, February 2010 – JTools, JTunes, creatingan account with the iTunes Store.

How Blind People Identify Paper Money – Aging and Disability in America

How Screen Magnification Systems Work

[PDF] Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0

Mobile Speak 4 – updated review – NFB – Access Technology Blog

[Audio] Serotalk Podcast 36 – Great Software That Works Great With System Access and Accessible RPG With Music and Sound

Skype on TV: Will the videophone finally be reality? – CNN.com – Samsung are releasing a Skype-enabled TV.

Some Tips For Dragon Dictation — Just Another iPhone Blog – a quick reference.

The Incredible, Accessible Presentation – Crafting PowerPointâ Presentations That Work With Assistive Technology.

The Serotek Ultimatum – Serotek Blog – Serotek launches a polemic against the ‘traditional’ access tech industry.

HerdictWeb – test web sites for accessibility.

Vodafone… get blind pedestrians back on track! –
sign the petition about Vodafone dropping Wayfinder Access.
[Audio] Audio promotion of the petition
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The Blind Buzz on Accessibility

ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ANDROID SMARTPHONES – EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information

Adapting Sports for Blind Participation – To Ginger Irwin, All Sports are Accessible to the Visually Impaired

Blind Wiki – many kinds of resource information.

BlindWorld Blog and Podcast: iPhone Podcast 3: THE IPHONE!!! – well-stablished treasure-trove of information and reviews from Shane Jackson.

Braille karaoke lets blind croon in sync | The Japan Times Online

Braille packaging for medication – Lipogen, a cholesterol controlling medication, is the first in South Africa to get Braille labelling.

Chandigarh opens a new sensory park, for the visually challenged – northern India.

For the Visually Impaired, Money Talks – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com – this is about the
Franklin Bill Reader, which costs $300. It’s a funny way of solving your currency recognition problem – rob you of your currency first.

Handy Tech iRead – NFB Access Technology Blog – some advantages and disadvantages of this new OCR product – $750 doesn’t exactly make it cheap.

My first experience using an accessible touch screen device – Marco’s Accessibility Blog

Nick Lansley’s Technology for Tesco.com Blog: The web is a visual medium, so what are blind people doing on it? – 10 years later, Nick is telling web designers how to make their sites as good as Tesco’s. Hmmmm.

Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips – Podcast and Blog: Podcast #78: Web Accessibility News – Web Axe

ReadSpeaker – Make your web sites, blogs, RSS feeds, digital books talk!

Sharing Solutions: Strategies for Effective Socializing Whether at Work or Play – Seminars@Hadley – Monday, 22nd Feb, 2010, 11:00 AM CST, 17:00 GMT.

][Audio] Shelly Brisbin Discusses The Arrival of iPhone 3GS Accessibility – Mac Voices #982 – this is from June 2009, but is still worth a listen.

The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media

Web Developer Add-on for Firefox

WebsiteTips.com Web Design Tips, Web Page Design Tutorials CSS HTML Tutorials Website Design Tips – Web Site Resources – includes designing for accessibility.