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NVDA 2015.1 screen reader released: hands-on first impressions
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While not a proficient screen reader user, I find it useful from time to time when trying to read web pages, documents and emails which are text-heavy, so I was interested to take the new version of NVDA for a spin on my Windows 8.1 machine.
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Bloggers encouraged to audiocast their posts
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Audiocasts, also known as podcasts, are audio files commonly presented as voice recordings and broadcasts available to stream or download via the internet.
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ACMA reports on Australians’ online video use
Coles web accessibility case settled
Harvard & MIT sued over lack of captions
YouTube admits automatic captions have a way to go
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In comments made to the BBC, YouTube said that, while it believed having automatic captioning for video content was better than have no captioning at all, there was still plenty of room for improvement.
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YouTube embraces HTML5
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In a recent blog post, YouTube Engineering Manager Richard Leider wrote that this was largely due to a maturing of HTML5—a core technology underpinning the web, and as at late 2014, an official Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation.
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Web accessibility is everyone’s responsibility
Call for participants in new Twitter and communication disabilities study
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