It’s December 2015, the one-year anniversary since Google introduced its NoCAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA in a Google Online Security Blog post. As Google explained then, “On websites using this new API, a significant number of users will be able to securely and easily verify they’re human without actually having to solve a CAPTCHA. Instead, with just a […]
My song Man with Small F (The Inaccessible PDF Song), originally released on my Flow Theory Flavors album, is now featured on a compilation album called A11y Rocks! Man with Small F features a screen reader on vocals, trying but failing to make sense of a PDF document that wasn’t created properly for accessibility. There’s […]
Every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours of video on YouTube, with 300 hours of new video uploaded every minute (source: YouTube Statistics). Very few of these videos are captioned, which means there are huge volumes of information being shared by our society, and people who are deaf or hard of hearing are […]
I received two ads this week from accessibility-related vendors, one in the mail and one via Facebook on my phone. The one in the mail was from Nuance and was an ad for Dragon Professional, the speech recognition product that enables people to dictate documents and use their computers hands-free. The ad features a very […]
I rolled out a new version of Able Player over the weekend, and the new version (2.2.1) now supports YouTube captions and subtitles. It was already possible to use Able Player to play YouTube videos, but until now we had relied entirely on YouTube to handle captions on its own, which isn’t necessarily intuitive or […]