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Making Facebook Accessible

Posted on May 7, 2012 by jeb

A recent posting in one of my LinkedIn groups (the Web 2.0 Accessibility Forum) motivated me to put this together. Richard from Webbism writes a blog describing his effort to find the “accessibility help” resources on Facebook. I wince in … Continue reading →

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Posted on May 5, 2012 by jeb

UPDATE: The GAAD website is now live. Just want to help spread the word about this effort. Here is what it is all about (from their Facebook page): About Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a community-driven effort whose goal is … Continue reading →

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Accessible Social Networking

Posted on December 30, 2011 by jeb

Recently a colleague asked me to comment on the accessibility of Facebook and Twitter. The concern was whether state government should be embracing social networking as a means of outreach to the citizenry. My response was well thought out but … Continue reading →

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Supporting documentation

Posted on December 13, 2010 by jeb

It’s always good to be in the right place at the right time. I had this feeling today when I read a series of articles from this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education about accessible and universal design in college websites … Continue reading →

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Accessible Facebook

Posted on February 19, 2009 by jeb

From Dan Jellinek E-ACCESS BULLETIN A tool to make the social networking site Facebook more accessible to visually impaired users has been created by Project:Possibility, a group of not-for-profit software developers in the US. The application allows visually impaired users … Continue reading →

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