Helping the blind blog

The AFB study assessed usability in a screen-reader/Braille-display combination. The issue of whether or not your site meets accessibility guidelines is another matter. You don't. You don't meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Level A in several significant ways and AA in a few others, principally invalid code.

I know you're all chuffed about blogs, but could you also become chuffed about Web standards, please, of which accessibility is a part?

Joe, if you could sent along specific recommendations, or steer us somewhere we can find them, I'll forward the information to our tech team. Thanks, Steve

Google "Web standards," read Zeldman, visit my site, hire developers competent for the 21st century.

Steve, we posted some new accessibility tips that we thought bloggers would find useful. Check them out at http://www.afb.org/blogtips.asp. Thanks, Adrianna Montague-Gray

A little backwards thinking can heolp the bling too. Feed2Podcast.com turns any blog into a podcast. Now blind people can just listen to blogs... :)

CBS News Anchor Shomari Stone won an Emmy Nomination for the following inspirational story on
June 29, 2006.

http://cbs4.com/video/?id=19451@wfor.dayport.com

It is about George Stern, a 15 year old young man living in South Florida.

George lost his eyesight and some of his hearing due to a medical snafu when he was an infant, . But this is not a story about medical malpractice. Rather, it is about a youngster who plays three musical instruments, writes poetry, takes pre college courses in the 9th grade, and a family which supports him.

Blind and partially deaf; George accepts what he cannot change, develops his talents and brings personal dreams to fruition.

Hello, I am 28 and lost my sight due to Leber's Optic in November of 2006. I recently, started listening to an audio CD called the Groundswell to learn how blogging can help build my website www.snowbirdseeker.com and I have noticed problems with the security code issue. Thank you for writing this article on behalf of the blind. If you can benefit from listing rentals to find renters or benefit from a searchable list of seasonal vacation rentals my site can help. Again thank you and should anyone want to talk to me just go to the contact page and use the email link on www.snowbirdseeker.com Best regards, Troy Johnson President

Hello again. I Had to spend thousands to optimize my site www.snowbirdseeker.com and received some positive results. I am a 29 year old blind entrepreneur and I am trying to continue my team's efforts to increase my ranking with inbound links using my screen reader. I still have trouble with the caption security code and I would like to suggest that the code be placed on the page in script letters that are the same color as the background this way only screen readers would be able to hear the text and or see the text. I am not sure if this would be hidden then from the automatic submission bots, but perhaps it would remain hidden since the code would not be visible to the sighted. The code listed could be like a skeleton key. I Train Capoeira to deal with the stress of sites that ask for you to type in what you see often combined with the heading "Are you human?"