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The Commercial Disability Visual readers with low vision (VR/LV) do not have the assistive technology they need for the simple task of reading.  This technology exists for W3C technologies like HTML with CSS, but even that access is difficult to realize.  While the …

Our local NPR station , the daily paper and countless other media spigots are asking for remembrances of 9/11 . As my mind goes back to that day and I allow the political to fall away, what I remember is the Accessibility Internet Rally for Austin (AIR-Austin). At that time AIR …

Note: If you have trouble with this blog format try reading this at my site:  Tools for Access to Reading . Tools for Access to Reading My last blog, "Myths About Low Vision" seems to have caused more confusion than clarity.  Developers, being practical people, wanted …

Myths About Low Vision Most people lump blindness and visual impairment into one group. This is a mistake that does serious harm to many people who have low vision but are not blind. Well meaning people cite accommodations for people who are blind as examples of things that work …

I recently had a remarkable teaching experience. I was teaching on typographic accommodations that support visual readers with low vision. I had explained how there are more than 20  common ways to get low vision and these can attack about 15 systems in the eye and brain. …