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AT Works When Universal Design is Applied
I just watched the ODEP Office of Disability and Employment Policy webinar AT Works. The meeting featured a panel of accessibility experts including the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy Kathleen Martinez, Public Affairs Program Director of National Industries for the Blind Brian Hurley, and Associated Professor and...
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Adobe and NVDA Partnership Improves Accessibility
As Production Manager for the AccessWorks team here at Knowbility, my team and I have spent the past 3 years remediating PDFs and other documents to ensure accessibility. One of the main issues we face is the inability to reliably test documents using open source screen-readers. As open source screen-readers...
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Readability.com cares about accessibility
Announcement Rich Ziade of Readability.com announced today that his company will donate $50,000 to Knowbility. Rich said that the gift is because "We think you’re doing great, important work." Readability.com did not set out to benefit people with disabilities specifically. Begun as a way to unclutter web pages and allow...
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Please support Knowbility programs
For the first time in our 14 year history, Knowbility is launching an annual fund drive. We are fortunate to have been able to earn fees for many of our training and consulting services. But our foundational programs have community roots that need nurture and support. Our goal is to...
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Leaving the Fringe: 30 Seconds with Jimmy Bogard
It's the last day of AccessU, and Ragsdale Hall at St. Edward's University, the center of our operations, is quiet. Over in Trustee Hall, though, Jimmy Bogard of Headspring is teaching a post-conference class called "Accessibility for ASP.net." If you didn't make it out, you can still hear from Jimmy...