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TIGAR Project and Accessible Books

GENEVA, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Launched in November 2010, the TIGAR Project continues to accelerate. The aim of the TIGAR project is to increase the number of accessible books...

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Google: Accessible Web Tools

At its Google I/O developer conference, Google has presented new tools and improved versions of existing tools aimed at helping to make web sites accessible for people with disabilities…...

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Accessibility Tools For The Chrome Developer

I’m impressed enough with the effort that a snippet of text and a link to Google’s “Accessibility Developer Tools” that I wanted it to be a stand alone post on our site....

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Netflix Captioning

You may have recently come across an article or heard something about Netflix but what is really happening.  Long story short Netflix is under the gun to provide captioning to it’s web-based content...

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IE 10: Captioning Support

If you frequently watch video content on the web, you may have noticed the recent increase in the availability of captions. Sometimes they are part of the video itself, while other times they are...

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Making a Colorful Video Game Work for Color Blind Gamers

Colors: an often overlooked issue when it comes to development and accessibility, pretty simple fact that your work can be for not if the end user can’t use it, see it or understand it. “Zuma, a...

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Color, Contrast and 1194.21

I was recently asked about a software issue involving problems with color.  The synopsis is that an older piece of windows-based software doesn’t allow for color customizations and also overrides the...

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Mobile Accessibility: Windows 8

For the masses a smart phone has become a valuable tool to stay connected to…everything.  I’ll applaud anyone making the effort to add more accessible technologies to their products. “Windows Phone 8,...

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Accessible Video Player: Video.js

If you’ve ever tried to use a video player on your computer you know that it is typically displayed with buttons representing actions that are rarely accessible to anyone other than a mouse user....

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Section 718: Mobile Internet Browser Accessibility

The FCC has recently introduced Section 718 as part of the Communications Act of 1934.  The gist of it all… internet browsers on mobile devices must be accessible.  This will force the hardware...

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