Category: Accessibility

Tomorrow I am co-presenting at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA at the Collaboration Expedition Workshop.. I’ve been working with Janina Sajka of the American Foundation for the Blind on delivering DAISY content over telephone. My trip to Amsterdam last month was to the DAISY conference. I’ve been delving deeper and deeper into accessibility moving beyond just the web into other areas such as audio-books. One possible future I see for this work is to help deliver web-based content via the telephone using DAISY as the go-between. DAISY relies on hierarchical structuring of information and a well designed, semantically marked-up website is a natural fit for this. So, we shall see. Who knows? Maybe we’ll be able to do this with DisabilityInfo.gov?

Currently listening to: La Bohéme Prelude and Aria from the album “Quartetto Gelato” by Quartetto Gelato

Another link to the press release at another site (my earlier link is broken).

After we launched the site I basically slept for four days. Now we’re back, finishing up back-end features and fixing minor bugs. So far, so good. We did get one irate email from someone who thought the site was inaccessible and lamented at how no one wants to help the disabled. From what I can tell, she was making a pretty simple mistake. It’s too bad she thinks we’re not trying to help. I went out of my way to make this site as accessible as possible. In fact, I want to hear about real problems so I have a chance to fix them…