Posts Tagged ‘ web ’

To many people, web site accessibility involves screen readers. Well, not all the visually impaired were created equal. Consequently, there needs to be a variety of routes to accessibility. For me, and many others, simple changes are all that is necessary to make a site readable. Most often, easily adjustable font and color schemes...
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A few days ago, I ran across sometihng called the Shorty Awards on Twitter. The seem to be a light-hearted way to leverage the TwitterVerse for a little fun. The Shorty Awards honor the world’s top Twitterers. You can nominate as many people for as many categories as you’d like until midnight December 31st....
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According to the folks at Slashdot, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Now Final, we have some new guidelines on web accessibility from the standards-grind-slow dept. “It has been going on nine years now, but finally there are formal standards for Web accessibility for technologies other than HTML. They ask that you start with the...
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A few months ago, at the behest of another legally blind blogger, I set up a Google Group for bloggers who are, you guessed it!, blind and visually impaired (or are just interested in accessibility in blogging). Blind Bloggers is still a small group, with just forty four members. From the description: A space...
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The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) has instructions on ‘How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers‘. I have wondered how accessible this blog is. I can access it quite easily since I have tweaked IE to make almost any page readable. Bur I do not know how others see it. I...
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