Can you remember a time when the title of this blog post might have landed me in a straight jacket? Can you believe that was just a few short years ago? Yea, I can’t either.
Anyway, Gary’s post Outfox: speech, sound, and more for Firefox talks about a new Firefox extension. He’s using it to create [...]
Category Archives: Accessibility
Outfoxing Gmail with Greasemonkey
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Accessibility Daily Moved
Monday, July 28, 2008
If you were tracking the Accessibility Daily feed I set up on Google Reader, you’ll want to update your reader to point to the new feed aliased by http://a11y.mindtrove.info. I’ve switched over to using a clone of Eitan’s Yahoo! Pipes aggregator to get more control over the output (and because I forgot the credentials for [...]
Rich Audio MUDs
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Gary has mentioned that sound adventure games like Descent into Madness and The Last Crusade have served as effective rewards in some local schools. Kids with visual impairments work hard in order to earn time playing them.
I’ve been brainstorming a bit about open-ended multi-user dungeons (MUDs) with rich sound and speech. Gary thinks [...]
Accessibility Daily
Monday, May 19, 2008
David informed me that he doesn’t have the cycles to maintain his Accessible Planet site. As I’ve gotten some comments from people interested in an a11y news aggregator, I went on the hunt again for a solution.
Gary came up with an interesting idea: create a shared Google Reader aggregate feed. The result is something very much [...]
Planet A11y … Already Exists
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Steve Lee points out that David Bolter is already hosting a Planet instance for accessibility news aggregation. The link is: http://aplanet.atrc.utoronto.ca/.
I’m all for using what’s already up and running. Perhaps some simple domain redirection would make it slightly easier to locate in Google? Linux Foundation already owns a11y.org and uses it to redirect to http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Accessibility. Maybe they [...]
