The 2010 FIFA World Cup championship match is only a few hours away. For over a month now, Earth has been buzzing with the ambient hum of vuvuzelas, and football(soccer)-related conversations have spanned the globe in every major language. I watched some of this conversation on Twitter, where at times the #worldcup backchannel was racking […]
As many of you know, I’ve created an accessible NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket every year since 2006. This year I’ve been asked by multiple people to do the same for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. At first I embraced this idea! The World Cup is an awesome event, followed passionately if not religiously by […]
On April 30 I set out to migrate this blog from Blogger to WordPress. I had several reasons for wanting to do this: Blogger (Google) had announced that as of May 1, it would no longer support FTP accounts, and mine was an FTP account. This meant I was going to have to migrate from […]
The U.S. Access Board recently released its Draft Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Standards and Guidelines. These are intended to update the existing Section 508 Standards, as well as the guidelines for Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act. The Access Board is soliciting public comment on the new Standards and Guidelines through June 21. Additional […]
Yesterday I gave a couple of presentations at the Digital Accessibility Expo, a wonderful event in its second year, hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Slides for my presentations are here: Video Accessibility, in PowerPoint Video accessibility, in PDF Online Tools and Documents, in PowerPoint Online Tools and Documents, in PDF The latter […]