We have decided to sponsor the European Accessibility Forum held on the 27th of March in Frankfurt Germany.
Web accessibility is of great importance not only for people using screen readers and other assistive technology but also for everybody else. Adopting and practicing the web standards is key to make web content [...]
I will be particpating in a panel about accessible online text content and electronic books for people with disabilities at the most important French book fair called the “Salon du Livre” on March 17 from 11h30 to 13h. The audio channel for electronic books is a hot topic right now with [...]
As you might have remembered when I wrote a post about From birth of the talking web and into the future. I owed you a follow-up note so here it is! As I had discussed, we started out by having a focused approach on which customers we should approach and which [...]
Stockholm launched a new website this spring and did it in a new way. Months before the launch they released a beta-version were they invited all the people in Stockholm to contribute and give opinions on how their website should be. They had a fully transparent and open dialogue with the [...]
In the past couple of months we have been getting an increasing number of requests from smaller personal or business web sites and blogs that are interested in speech-enabling their web content using the award winning ReadSpeaker text-to-speech services, but that we just simply could not dedicate enough time to present [...]
We 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 [...]
Finally! 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 [...]
The 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 [...]
In 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 [...]
I 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 [...]
