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By Sharron Rush, Executive Director As 2012 comes to a close, we at Knowbility hope you have had a good year.  We look back at a year of tremendous progress in the field of accessibility, watching changes that we have anticipated for many years coming to pass. Since 1998, …

Community and Accessible IT in the Alamo City On November 2nd, Susan Price and Debbie Curtis of Firecat Studios http://www.firecatstudio.com/ hosted their “Is Your Website Accessible?” open house and lunch, with guest speaker, Guido D. Corona , Knowbility’s …

By Guido D. Corona and Jason Hester The 4th survey of world-wide trends in the use of screen reader technology for people with visual disabilities ( Screen Reader User Survey #4 Results ), published in 2012 by WebAim, has detected a rising rate of adoption of mainstream mobile …

WIN 8 phones are talking, campus speechifying, Inclusive Design doesn’t have to be bland By Molly Holzschlag Speech Comes to Windows 8 Phones . An exciting feature of the Window 8 phone is that it has a speech platform. This brings a layer of accessibility to the phone …

Assistive Tech for students with disabilities at all levels ATSTAR, Knowbility’s online assistive technology course for education professionals, continues to make great strides, entering new college campuses across the US. ATSTAR is currently being used for pre-service and …