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CSUN's International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference is an amazing conference in its twenty-eighth year. Knowbility is extremely proud to be associated with the conference - Sharron will deliver four sessions this year! Best of all, we're giving you the opportunity to support Knowbility and win a chance for...

By Sharron Rush, Executive Director As 2012 comes to a close, we at Knowbility hope you have had a good year.  We look back at a year of tremendous progress in the field of accessibility, watching changes that we have anticipated for many years coming to pass. Since 1998, Knowbility...

Rewarding those who lead by example Knowbility is excited to announce, we’re accepting nominations for the first annual Achievements in Accessibility Awards. Achievements in Accessibility will recognize excellence in web and IT accessibility initiatives by business, government, nonprofit, and educational entities. Nominees will be judged according to Knowbility’s Accessibility Internet...

Community and Accessible IT in the Alamo City On November 2nd, Susan Price and Debbie Curtis of Firecat Studios http://www.firecatstudio.com/ hosted their “Is Your Website Accessible?” open house and lunch, with guest speaker, Guido D. Corona, Knowbility’s resident flugelhorn player, screen reader user, classical music enthusiast and, oh yes, by...

By Guido D. Corona and Jason Hester The 4th survey of world-wide trends in the use of screen reader technology for people with visual disabilities (Screen Reader User Survey #4 Results), published in 2012 by WebAim, has detected a rising rate of adoption of mainstream mobile devices by blind individuals....