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Accessible March Madness

The NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament is now down to four teams that will compete in Indianapolis next weekend to determine the National Champion. Since 2006, I have created an Accessible NCAA Tournament Bracket, and this year for the first time I hosted an accessible tournament pool that allowed screen reader users and non-mousers to fill […]

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2010 FIFA World Cup: An Accessibility Review of Leading WebSites

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 […]

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A Behind-the-Scenes Peek at Automatic Captions on YouTube

On November 19, 2009 Google announced that it was launching automatic captions in YouTube. The University of Washington recently joined the list of early testers of this feature, so I thought I’d offer a sneak peek of how it works. The typical YouTube video player has a button in the lower right corner that for […]

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New Years Eve, Prince (The Artist), and Alternate Text

Each New Years Eve since 1982, I have found myself humming that defiant yet celebratory New Years anthem by Prince, "1999". This reminds me of something I have often puzzled about, but until now have never blogged about or even mentioned to anyone. From June 7, 1993 to May 13, 2000, Prince went by the […]

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My New, More Accessible Blogger Template

For those of you who have been reading my blog for a while, you may have noticed that I recently changed my template. This is a Blogger blog, and when I originally set up my Blogger account I was in a hurry to do so and simply selected one of the available templates. However, I’ve […]