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 […]
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Accessible Documents in HTML, Word, and PDF
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]