accessibility

Tonight, ZeroDivide will conduct the fourth in its ongoing series of Salon dinners.  These Salons bring together policy experts, advocates, and donors in a small group, intimate setting to discuss innovative ideas for addressing cutting edge topcis.  This evening's Salon turns the spotlight on disability and accessibility.  It will feature Kathy Martinez, President Obama's newly appointed Assistant Secretary for Disabilty Employment Policy at the US Department of Labor.  Assistant Secretary Martinez will lead the evening's discussion, which will focus on the intersections between acc

One of the problems with Web 2.0 (and more specifically AJAX’ed applications) is their lack of usability for people with different types of disabilities. AJAX (aka Asynchronous Javascript over XML aka snazzy things done behind the browser screen) is an example of technology that has been adopted widely with graceful accessibility trying very hard to catch up.

Not all is bad news, Google for one is working very hard (and so are other companies such as Yahoo!

Kim Hutchinson of The Disability Funders Network points us to website which has subtitled the Presidential Debates and is offering it as free service.

Even though I am not deaf or hard of hearing, I find it useful to simultaneously read and hear what the candidates are saying during these debates.

Hat tip to Kim and thanks to taudiobook for doing this.