Tag Archives: accessibility

design flaws

Posted on Monday, January 2, 2012 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: English; Subtitles: English] You don’t think they could call in a couple of blind people to help with testing the new design…?? NAH! Too obvious of a solution to this kind of crap… Like 0

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accessible yosemite

Posted on Friday, August 5, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: English?; Captions: English; Languages: ASL, English (if audio)] How cool is that? Like 0

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dyslexie, a new font

Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: ?; Captions: English] Very interesting, hadn’t thought of this. Wonder how available this font is… Surely these principles could also be applied to other fonts to create a number of dyslexic-friendly fonts… Like 0

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Keith Nolan – Deaf in the Military

Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: ?; Captions: English; Languages: ASL, English] A very, very interesting presentation! I’m no fan of the military, personally, but I agree that a deaf person who wants to join the military ought to be able to, and Keith Nolan … Continue reading →

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CNN: how ’bout now? Can you hear us?

Posted on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 12:00 pm by

From GLAD. No, not GLAAD, but GLAD — Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness: A class action lawsuit filed today in Alameda County Superior Court alleges that Time Warner Inc., the owner of CNN.com discriminates against people who are deaf … Continue reading →

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the filter bubble

Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio: English; Captions: Arabic, Chinese (2), English, Italian, Romanian (see link below)] I love TED’s videos, but I find it very frustrating they don’t appear to make the subtitles available via embedding! The talk, with its captions, is available here: … Continue reading →

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this n that

Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 12:00 pm by

Go and read Now What?: It is hard to escape the fact that, in far too many ways, bin Laden won even in death. He hoped to provoke a drastic over-reach from that resident idiot in the White House, and … Continue reading →

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drive through accessibility

Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[Audio:? Subtitles: English; Languages: ASL] So… What did they do to make their drive through more accessible?? I was left hanging on that point, but a quick search led me to this: [Audio: English; Subtitles: English; Languages: English, ASL] That’s … Continue reading →

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this n that

Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 10:00 am by

State of the Web (Oatmeal) From JMG: Iowa Rep. Dwayne Alons: Normal People Live Longer Because They’re Not Gay. The supply of stupid, OTOH, is infinite. What the right won’t admit about Reagan. What I love about this is that … Continue reading →

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HIV testing

Posted on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 6:00 pm by

[ASL, captioned] We need accessible, understandable sex education for every one. From Sister Lucy’s facebook page: Sister Lucy is a Deaf sex-ed teacher who is fed up with the fact that there is so little information on-line about HIV prevention … Continue reading →

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