The Spotify streaming music service has just launched in Australia. This should be cause for celebration and probably is great news if you aren’t blind or vision impaired. The problem is that the software employed by Spotify is not accessible to blind and vision impaired computer users who use screen readers to use their computer [...]
Spotify launches in Australia but discriminates against the blind and vision impaired
May 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Facebook Voting is Inaccessible on The Voice Australia TV Show
May 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
Just a quick update in this post as the matter is still under way. The Voice Australia is a very popular TV Show on Channel 9. They even have a vision impaired singer participating who has RP. After the first live show, they announced that you could vote on Facebook as a free voting option [...]
Trial of audio description for television on ABC TV
February 25, 2012 By 1 Comment
Hi All I was excited to see the recent announcement by Senator Conroy about the trial of audio description on ABC TV. This is something BCA, and their partners, have been advocating for over the past few years. Please see below the BCA media release congratulating the Australian Government. I have also placed below the [...]
Use of graphical Captchas on your website can be discriminatory – Issues and solutions inside
January 11, 2012 By 2 Comments
I want to discuss today the use of what are known as “Captchas” on websites. These captchas can cause real accessibility problems and even totally prevent the use of your website by vision impaired people if you don’t take care in their implementation. Website designers and programmers really need to investigate this issue and provide [...]
Computer braille output project – Make a donation and get a great bonus gift
January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This post is about a blindness project that holds much promise and I have made a donation personally so I ask you take a few moments to learn more. The project “owner” is developing a low cost braille output device for computers. In case you don’t know braille is a tactile way of representing letters, [...]
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