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- Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web, court says
- Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web, court saysHow do you redesign a website for blind person?They can't see it so re-aranging it for blind person won't help. What do they expect you do?For those who are legally blind but still can see to an extent there is some technology devices that...
- Discussion threads 2004-09-27
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- How important is 1:1 to literacy?
- I think that writing with pencil and paper is over rated. I almost never write anything with a pencil anymore. The newer generations will write even less. Better that they learn to write with modern tools. And, what better way than to give each one a laptop.Tell that to Neal...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- The American Textbook Accessibility ActChris, you're dreamingThe only way this is going to get a Federal charter is if someone with enough muscle gets to skim rents.None of the players have enough concentrated political pull to overcome the others who would gang up to block the monopoly play, so it's...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- The American Textbook Accessibility Act
- Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about Arizona State University's use of the Kindle in a pilot program and the heat the school was taking over the inability of blind students to use the devices. While the controversy seemed overblown to me, it sparked an interesting conversation with fellow blogger,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Kindle draws fire at Arizona State
- Kindle draws fire at Arizona StateRidiculous liberalismHas any blind student even indicated an interest in the course? Has the school offered to provide braille copies or text-to-speech technology? This sounds like a non-problem that people are trying to turn into a problem to advocate a misguided political agenda. When I...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Is the Kindle one massive DRM timebomb?
- Is the Kindle one massive DRM timebomb?When you download PDF booksYou have none of these fears, and none of these issues. The illegal method is more convenient and has less problems associated with it than the legal method.The removal of items and features from a device I have purchased should...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
- AT&T's iPhone vs. Pre comparison chart
- AT&T's iPhone vs. Pre comparison chartIt's more about the service than the phone.Obviously not everyone agrees, but for me then it's more about the service than the phone. I want an iPhone pretty badly but since ATT sucks then I'm all for the Pre. Not because the Pre is some...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- Google offer scholarship for disabled students
- Google are offering another scholarship especially for those who are physically or mentally impaired, who study some form of computer subject at college. With $10,000 USD for those studying in the US and $5,000 CAD for those in Canada on the cards, including a chance to have an all-expenses paid...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- How to make Government 2.0 a reality
- Today was the final day of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. This morning's mixed bag of keynotes included a fireside talk with the founders of Threadless.com and a great demo of chartbeat, a new real-time website monitoring tool. After the keynotes, I decided to let...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- 'Handicapped access' hits the Web
- 'Handicapped access' hits the WebADA compliance could be a muzzle on Internet speechAs a blogger, I can see how the Americans with Disabilities Act could be used as a punitive yardstick set so that people without the resources of a major corporation (i.e., bloggers as opposed to news organizations) could...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Oh, one more beef about CompUSA: the drug testing
- Oh, one more beef about CompUSA: the drug testingJust becuase it's legal, it's OK?[i]Also what if several people call in sick, and you are the last person available and it's busy and you are stoned? ...but alcohol is legal and can be purchased over the counter without a prescription.[/i]"You're hammered?...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- Accessibility laws and rich Internet applications
- TechCrunch and The Register are both reporting on the court case which pit Target against the National Federation of the Blind NFB and Bruce Sexton, a blind man who sued the company saying that the website was not in line with national and state laws which mandate accessibility for the...
- Blog posts 2007-10-14
- Want blind visitors? Get alt tags
- If you want to serve Web visitors with visual handicaps make certain your Web site is accessible to them. The simplest thing you can do is to place alt= tags on all images, so their content can be understood and thus "read" by screen readers, which are used...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- GPL defenders say: See you in court
- GPL defenders say: See you in courtOnly fair...If you are going to use the code then you must abide by the terms of the license.I completely understand the SFLC's position. There must be a penalty for violating the license. Otherwise it turns into a game of using the code in...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- For the blind the Web is one step forward, two steps back
- For the blind the Web is one step forward, two steps backIf there's a demand for......new assistive technologies, someone will hack them together--we don't need yet ever more of the intrusively heavy hand of government "allowing" or disallowing this or that. That is your proposal isn't it? That...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- FCC extends disability provisions of Communications Act to VoIP
- Late Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission extended the disability access requirements of Sections 225 and 255 of the Communications Act, which currently apply to traditional phone services, to providers of interconnected VoIP services and to manufacturers of equipment used to provide those services.Section 255 of the...
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Windows Presentation Foundation in action - Microsoft MAX
- Windows Presentation Foundation in action - Microsoft MAXwebified works, isn't it?I kinda find this whole thing ironic - here we were, for years, trying to get away from the client/server "ball and chain" method, to http based sites. Then with RIA we wanted to make the web apps look like...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-10
- Machines for disabled won't be ready for primaries
- Massachusetts disabled voters won't have appropriate voting machines for primary elections in September, the state's election official said, although he expects them to be in place for the November general election, AP reports. The problem: It's a hard task to find a universal machine that accomodates all kinds of...
- Blog posts 2006-08-15
- Why a landmark court case could force you to redo your whole Web site
- Why a landmark court case could force you to redo your whole Web siteThere was already a case about thisAgainst an airline, IIRC. They ruled in favor of the airline.ADA justificationsI'm red headed, left handed, brain damaged, near-sighted, missing part of a digit and have a semi-colon. I demand to...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- Why a landmark court case could force you to redo your whole Web site
- Is your Web site accessible to people with disabilities PWDs? Particularly to those with impaired vision? Do you even know what the definition of such accessibility is? Probably not. But you may have to thanks to a landmark case now getting underway between the National Federation of...
- Blog posts 2006-05-11
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