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Blind people watch tv?
At midnight tonight, I know of at least one of my local stations that is going all digital and will no longer broadcast an analog signal. Congress delayed the deadline until June of this year, but some stations are prepared and are going to embrace this new way of …
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John Slatin AccessU 2009 - are you going?
I am hoping to attend my fourth conference this May in Austin. I'm new to this blog. I have competed in AIR Houston several times and am now on the AIR Houston board. I am the webmaster of the Houston Department of Health and Human Services. Part of my interest in …
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Twitter is making fantastic strides!
I am very excited to add a new chapter in my social media adventures! An independent group is working on an accessible version of Twitter! Many features are still in the working stages, but this is so exciting indeed! I tried out the site so far and find it …
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Facebook, the good, bad and the ugly!
For the past couple of weeks, I have been on facebook , fairly active and experimenting. I started out with just a couple of friends, but through the power of this social media, in the past few days, I now have almost 50 friends. I have figured out how to link my facebook with …
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Survey says?
For the past two months, WebAIM has been conducting a Screen Reader survey to get a feel for how users deal with various types of web content. There were 1121 participants, 95% of them being blind and/or low vision, and the remaining consisted of testers and/or web …