Web accessibility issues are certainly easy to find. Calling attention to each one any user encounters would quickly be overwhelming. But every once in a while you come across examples that are just so basic they need to be mentioned. I’m sure just about everyone has heard of Morningstar, the financial research giant. The company’s star ratings pepper the financial world, with Morningstar ratings being used in any credible financial research source. In…
Leave a CommentMonth: November 2009
Earlier I wrote about my hope to see improved accessibility from CBS College Sports All Access. As of that writing I was told the accessibility fixes were expected on November 10. That day came and went with no update. I received a brief update today from the people I’ve been exchanging e-mail with at the University of Wisconsin about the accessibility issues. we received this info from cbs last Thursday. There was a…
One CommentKindle for PC, software that’s supposed to allow you to read the more than 360,000 books Amazon touts as being available for the Kindle is now available from the online retail giant. Disappointing, albeit not surprising, accessibility seems to be lacking. Trying the application with JAWS, Window-Eyes, NVDA and even Narrator produced nothing meaningful. JAWS was silent as I tabbed around beyond announcing a title of the opening screen telling me to register the…
2 CommentsIf you’ve not yet tried Walk Score, it is to me a web site worth having in your favorites list. You enter an address and the site gives you what is termed a walkability score for the address. This score is based on proximity of things like shops, restaurants and such. You get not only the score, but the list of businesses. Site accessibility needs some improvement but you can generally make it work. …
Leave a CommentFor the past several years, September has been the time for me to renew my subscription to the University of Wisconsin athletic broadcasts offered on Yahoo’s college sports broadcast services. This year I hunted and hunted but Badger broadcasts were not to be found. As it turned out, Bucky Badger decided to go with a different online partner for streaming media, namely CBS sports. Well, the first football game day rolled around so I…
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