web accessibility
Amazon State goes vocal
Sunday, November 16th, 2008We have been contacted a few weeks ago by a Brazilian web agency by the name of Vortex Midia headed by Wagner Cardoso about the possibility of speech-enabling several web sites belonging to the government authorities of the Amazon State in Brazil. We were very enthusiastic about this project because it shows just how speech-enabling […]
ReadSpeaker with synchronized highlighting
Monday, October 20th, 2008Finally! proReader has arrived – the superior reading experience! No download required!
ReadSpeaker “proReader”; the next generation accessibility tool to make websites speak has arrived. We have for many years been asked to add the function of highlighting the text that is currently read. There was no simple way to do that on a server-side solution. […]
Listen function as Universal design
Friday, October 3rd, 2008The other day I was standing in the hotel bar watching the TV. The volume was turned down completely but thanks to the real-time captioning I was able to follow the news broadcast. The day after, I was spending some hours waiting for my delayed flight at Heathrow airport to get ready for departure. There was […]
The Target Store case
Monday, September 1st, 2008In a recent agreement, Target and the National Federation of the Blind settled for a class action lawsuit which had been filed by several blind users of the Target web site back in 2006. One of the main points of the agreement is Target’s obligation to make their web site fully accessible by end of […]
European commission urges on web accessibility
Saturday, August 9th, 2008I noticed recently a press release that European commission published in July. The headline was: “Commission wants a web that is better enabled for the disabled“.
I was present at the conference in Riga in 2006 that followed after the MINISTERIAL DECLARATION was signed by all current member states. Paragraph number 25 declared that: “Promoting and […]
ReadSpeaker in the Press
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008If you have a minute, please read this great article from “Insurance & Technology” about one of our recent ReadSpeaker implementations. / Niclas
Simple steps for better ranking
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Attended the SEO session at the Web2.0Expo in San Francisco today. The Session was held by Nathan Buggia (Microsoft), Vanessa Fox (Ignition Partners). Since about 43% of the visitors of websites are referred from search result pages, this is obviously getting more and more important.
In short, a couple of good rules for HTML coding to […]
Software or SaaS for speech enabling?
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008I have for the last 8 years worked developing SaaS solutions that in different ways speech enable web content. The business logic is quite straight forward; the customers (content owners) are the ones subscribing to and paying for the product and their visitors are the ones using it. So, it is a service that the […]
Doing what for whom exactly?
Friday, March 7th, 2008I came across an interesting fact today. There is no reports/studies/statistics showing that “having a web shop that is accessible for people with disabilities actually increases sales” (if I’m wrong, here please let me know where to find such report). Or maybe there is, but under a slightly different name? Like for example “Having a […]