The W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) project has three positions available based in Europe to work on various aspects of web accessibility. All positions indicate they are for a period of three years starting on Jan 1, 2019. The organization is looking for a Web Authoring Tools Accessibility Specialist, an Emerging Web Technologies Accessibility Specialist and a Web Accessibility Education and Training Specialist. Full job descriptions and application requirements can be found at https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Recruitment/. An email with…
Leave a CommentMonth: October 2018
Over the years I’ve used a range of solutions for solving the basic challenge of wanting to experiment with new versions of operating systems, screen readers, applications and more without breaking a working system. From using dedicated test computers, various hard drive imaging solutions, dual booting (running two operating systems on the same machine) and of course using what are known as virtual machines through the various virtual machine technologies available. The majority of my…
One CommentIf you are a user of the TuneIn audio services and in particular a subscriber to their premium TuneIn Live service, TuneIn Live on Alexa might be worth exploring. The service is available at a discounted rate of $2.99 for Amazon Prime members or $3.99 without a Prime subscription. This is lower than the standard $7.99 monthly subscription price. One benefit I enjoy in TuneIn Live is the fact that audio for the NFL, NBA,…
Leave a CommentI normally do not write blog posts directly online using WordPress. However in doing some updating today, I noticed text talking about a new editing experience coming to WordPress called Gutenberg. Details on the project can be found at https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/. If you are a screen reading user who writes content inside of WordPress, trying Gutenberg is something you may want to consider. I’m just learning it as I write here but am noticing some issues between…
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