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The Provost Office at the University of Texas continues to send form letters to the hundreds of people who have written in protest of their decision to shut down the Accessibility Institute.   Their boilerplate gives lip services to their admiration for the work of John …

Last week, the University of Texas at Austin announced that they intended to close the Accessibility Institute, founded by Dr. John Slattin!  This came as a big surprise to people both in the local community and many world-wide as well.  The University of Texas has …

As I have previously stated here, I love to shop on line.  One of my favorites used to be eBay , but as I talked about some time ago, they have made some changes to their site that has made shopping there more difficult and tiresome for me using jaws.  But there are …

Many times, I am presented with the following scenario; I am at someone’s house, a Public Library , or even an Internet Cafe .  There are computers available, but none have a screen reader installed.  I need to look up something on Google , or visit some other …

An interactive menu that can talk? Yes, it is true, and I saw one in action! I love to eat out , don’t we all? We pay good money to have choices in what we want to eat at any particular restaurant. It is also a social thing , going out with one person, or a group of people …