Weblogs: Web Accessibility

Real life accessibility

• Herald Business: Tapping into a viable worker pool -- "Hiring people with disabilities is a win-win situation for employer, employee"
• WCF Courier: Cerebral palsy does not stop student from daily swim
• London Free Press: Blind assured taxi service
• Deleware online: Disabled get a hand at the pump
• News4Jax: Federal Court hearing disabled voters' suit
• KVAL 13 News: 'Can Do' Attitude

Web accessibility

• GCN: Government Web sites struggling to be accessible
• Newswire: Usability experts say Ontario political websites fall short of US standards
• Daily Nebraskan: Study ranks Nebraska web site 48th in nation -- 1.) Massachusetts, 2.) Indiana, 3.) Tennessee

Technology

• Newswire: VoiceGenie and Loquendo team up to empower speech-enabled services worldwide
• MacWorld: Adobe GoLive CS new features -- "accessibility testing with WebXACT"
• Telephony World: Lumenvox announces version 4.0 at Speechtek 2003 - VoiceXML export for web accessibility
• eWeek: Gnome desktop to gain browser -- "An onscreen keyboard called GOK .. Gnopernicus provides magnification of the screen, also acts as a bridge to other accessibility devices, such as a Braille reader"
• MacWorld: Apple Expo: pre-event round-up -- "Elan Speech will demonstrate its new high-end vocalization tool, Speechissimo, at an Expo conference for visually impaired people."

UK Related

• Guardian: We need a strategy to make technology fully available to the disabled, says John Low - "36% of 9 million UK disabled are online"
• Evening Telegraph: Bid to make Dundee a barrier-free city
• Business EPD: Web venture to help disabled - "It should be far easier for a disabled person to buy a CD online than go to the high street, but they are excluded by many websites."
• East Anglian: Creating 'Foolproof' websites
• Evening News 24: Council slammed over accessibility
• out-law: Digital TV is not accessible to the disabled

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