The Blind Buzz on Accessibility

24 ways: Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms

4All » Tech Ease – Help and “how to” tutorials for Accessibility options using Universal Access in Apple’s Mac OS X and Ease of Access in Microsoft Windows

Access 4 Us Offers In-depth Technology Reviews – Blind Bargains – blog that promises one in-depth review each week by an assistive technology expert. 

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These are the entries so far in the Access 4 Us Blog.

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  Welcome to the Access4 Us Blog
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  A Week With: The levelstar icon mobile Manager Review – a PDA for visually impaired people
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  Looking for Your Opinions – what kind of review would you like to get on the site?

Accessible Book Collection providing digital text to persons with disabilities

Accessible Textbooks | @Science Thematic Network – guidelines on making science textbooks accessible.

Accessibility News International 


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Accessibility Programming Wiki

Audiobooks, E-readers and Accessibility – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed – Blog U – the need to hold out for accessible e-readers.

Card Readers Draw Complaint  | Accessibility News International – Canadian disabled groups against fixed credit card readers.

CLiCk, Speak: A Talking Extension for Firefox

ConvenienceWare – GhostReader: text to speech solution for Mac OS X

Course Accessibility – Online Learning – Web Accessibility for Online Learning

CSS3 .info – All you ever needed to know about CSS3

Download Gorgeous Mouse Cursors for Free – claimed to make the mouse pointer easier to see, but that’s going to depend on who you are.

Enabling Accessibility in Flex applications

Fangs Screen Reader Emulator :: Add-ons for Firefox – this add-on presents a web page in the same, text-based, way that a screen reader would read it.

Findings: Inaccessible content at Vancouver2010.com and CTVOlympics.ca (Joe Clark)

Freedom of Choice – The Paciello Group Blog – European ruling has forced Microsoft to offer a choice of web browsers rather than imposing Internet Explorer on every user. But
read this article before you cheer too loudly.

gleeBox: Keyboard glee for your web – open-source add-on for Firefox and Chrome that lets you control your web viewing by keyboard – a little like the Insert + F7 (element list) option in some screen readers that lets you get easily to links, headings and so on. Explanatory video included.\ 

What’s new in gleeBox 1.0 – video on YouTube

How to SEO Flash in 2010 « Get Elastic – it’s possible to have Flash content and keep the search engines happy.

IDEA10 – Learning futures: technology challenges – this conference will take place in Melbourne, Australia, from 10th to 12th March, 2010.

Inclusive Pedestrian Environments: Resources and Recommendations – based in Boston, Mass, but this looks like a useful literature review that looks at pedestrian access to public transportation.

Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility – ask a disabled person, they already know stuff.

iPhone Color Blind Tools | HueVue: Colorblind Tools for the iPhone

Low Visionary: accessible information, disability rights, web accessibility 


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Making Your Web Colors Visible For All – Five Color Accessibility Tools

National Botanic Garden of Wales nominated for Accessible Britain Award | Horticulture Week – award launched by Rough Guides. 
Also visit
The Rough Guide to Accessible Britain

NoSquint: Firefox Extension – lets you control the colours and zoom level on web pages, overriding the site’s settings.

Nuance Buys MacSpeech: What Now? | ATMac

NVDA 2010.1beta1 Released – the latest test version of the free, open-source screen reader.

Orca – GNOME Live! – the free, open-source, multi-functional accessibility tool for Linux.

Painless accessibility tips for GNOME designers and developers « Máirín Duffy

Readability | NIACE – tools here that may help to remove the fog from your writing are a smart calculator and a leaflet about making language readable.

Recruiting Now for Survey on Synthesized Speech and Audio Description – IBM Research Japan and WGBH Boston will conduct this survey in early March.

SeroTalk Tech Chat on Effective Advocacy – February 25 9-10pm Eastern.

Testing With JAWS – how JAWS works for non-expert users, and why a web site working with JAWS is not a proof of accessibility.

Web Access – useful overview of tools and rules.

Web accessibility in European countries | eInclusion.hu – Tudásbázis – on the whole, the picture is not very encouraging. You can download the report from this page.

Web Site Design Suggestions for People with Dyslexia « Clear Helper – this might also be helpful for some people with ‘visual tiredness’.

The Blind Buzz on Tandem Cycling

Please also visit
Vince’s Parallax: Tandem Cycling and Blind People for more information on this topic.

Please note: This is just a taster – I have huge amounts of material on blind people and tandems waiting to be edited, so this topic will be back soon!

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38-Year-Old Blind Cyclist Seeks Disability Grant To Repair Vehicle – Springfield, Ohio man uses recumbent trike for therapy, needs repair or replacement.

Athletic Meeting for the Blind at British school of Beijing – events included tandem cycling.

Australian Track National Championships: Day 3, Route Maps & Results | Cyclingnews.com – including blind results.

[Video] AYUTTHAYA-BKK, Tour de Thailand 2009 – "This video represents one of the day rides of the Tour de Thailand 2009 from Chiang Mai to Phuket. This day ride is from Ayutthaya to the suburbs of Bangkok where the Foundation for the Blind in Thailand has one of their Skills Development Centers to teach the blind how to deal with everyday life and also for job training so that they can be productive members of society and take care of themselves. Each year students from the center come out on tandem bikes and join the Tour de Thailand cyclists along with local bike clubs for a great day out to raise funds, create awareness, and generally have a good time."

Bicycling Blind – "The U.S. Blind Tandem Cycling Connection endeavors to increase the participation of individuals who are visually impaired or blind in the exhilarating sport of tandem cycling."

Blind Courage – The Journey – Blind Courage » Blog Archive – two blind stokers and two sighted friends plan a tandem ride from Perth to Sydney for March, 2010, raising funds for Vision Australia. 

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[Slideshow] Blind Cyclist in Tour de Gruene – MySA.com Slideshow

Blind Guy Coming Through! – TeamRunningFree.com – how do you guide a blind guy through a triathlon?

Blind Kids Tandem Bike Ride. | Photos from The Oregonian – OregonLive.com

Conference Bike – Group cycling for 7 people

Coventry Visually Impaired and Sighted Tandem Association, Coventry VISTA, Cycling with the blind, Cycling for the blind – our aims activities and history

Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest – some of the pleasures and displeasures of cycling in this busy part of London.

[Video] Cycling Blind – On the track with GB Cycling as they train budding cyclists aiming for the Olympics and Paralympics.

Cycling eighth sports branch for blind in Turkey

Cycling Events: Para-cycling – Cycling Events & Cycling News » Blog Archive

Cycling films on Sportz Flick

Filming and free circuit training oppo- this Fri – Rides – Manchester Wheelers’ Cycling Club – photoshoot opportunity, Friday, 12th February, 2010.

Human Power – Learning to Use More of Your Senses « Easy Street Articles

Rob Matthews – Hompeage – information about this parolympian and now competitive cyclist, who has retinitis pigmentosa. His autobiography is "Running Blind" – link on the site.

TANDEM RIDER APPEAL | Cycle Logic | Bike Shop Cornwall – appeal for sighted pilot.

[Video] Willie and Freckles on Terra Trike – presumably Freckles is the dog!