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Baen Books Offers Free eBooks For People With Disabilities

January 8th, 2010

Sometimes the best ideas are somewhat let down by their implementation. This is what I think happened to me with a fantastic programme Baen Books is running: Baen Books offers free eBooks to disabled veterans and people with disabilities.

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I Offer To Build An Accessible Website For The Nevada Blind Children Foundation

June 18th, 2009

It appears my previous post about the Nevada Blind Children's Foundation being "Flash only" made a lot of noise, and upset people. I had been planning to write a follow-up post. A recent post on Darrel Shandrow's blog prompts me to write this follow-up faster than planned!

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Lack of Accessibility Symptomatic of Something Else?

June 14th, 2009

Someone pointed me to the Nevada Blind Children's Foundation's Website this morning, with a single question: "What do you make of this?". So I went to the site. And the words failed me. I couldn't quite believe what I saw. The entire site is one big Flash object. You don't get much LESS accessible than that.

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Google, the Largest Blind User on the ‘Net

February 28th, 2008

It seems people tend to see accessibility as a nice bonus, but nowhere near mission critical. This is especially true when we compare the relative importance of accessibility and SEO. But what people forget is that search bots are a little bit like screenreaders. Accessibility is not only helping your visitors with disabilities, but it will help search bots to make sense of your site and to find your content.

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