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A flip of the coin – accessibility, the web and us

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The problem with ‘web accessibility’ as a special accommodation is that disability is gone today and here tomorrow: our ‘abilities’ may be fleeting, sporadic, temporary, and erratic. We are all now or will be at some time ‘disabled’.

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Right vs rights holders: the threat to Internet access

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While Internet access is starting to be seen as a basic right, it is also increasingly being threatened by profiteers.

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Low vision? Visit the Mac-cessibility Network

The Mac-cessibility Network connects, compiles, and provides easy access to the best resources for blind, visually impaired, and other disability groups using Apple products.

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Read today and gone tomorrow

Reading comes easily to some of us. Some of us can not only comprehend the text we see, but we can see it in the first place. There are thousands, millions, of people in the world who cannot say that. Perhaps they are blind. Perhaps they have literacy problems. Perhaps they’re reading a web page [...]

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Who are the experts in document accessibility on the Mac?

I recently received an email from an acquaintance: I would love to talk with you about ways of making accessible documents using a Mac. …in partnership with the Blind and Low Vision Education Network, and local and central government, [we have] embarked on a project called Secondary Sight, whose long-term goal is an online, personalised [...]

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Sandvox: Sand in the eyes

Last month I wrote about iWeb, and how it gets in the way of creating a good website. Over the next few months I want to see if any of the other popular applications does a better job. I set out to create a simple one-page document with a little text, some headings, a list, [...]

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