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Knowbility, AIR and September 11, 2001
Our local NPR station, the daily paper and countless other media spigots are asking for remembrances of 9/11. As my mind goes back to that day and I allow the political to fall away, what I remember...
View ArticleAIR-Interactive 2012 launches at Scholz Garden
Scholz Garden has been serving beer in Austin, Texas since 1866 . And, since 1998, Knowbility’s Accessible web design competition, the Accessibility Internet Rally for Austin (AIR-Austin) holds its...
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The Amazing Accessible Internet Rally
In eight hours, you could drive from Austin to New Orleans for soul food and zydeco, or you could head west to Roswell to find out if aliens really exist. You could take a trip to the Gulf, wriggle...
View ArticleA modest list of accessibility events at SXSWi
Two themes continued to surface during this last glorious week spent with the accessibility tribe at the CSUN Conference on Assistive Technology. One has to do with professionalization of the field...
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Knowbility Takes SXSW by Storm & Announces Winners of AIR!
It’s a Friday in Austin. By any regards, it’s just another day in just another city. In fact, if you walked through downtown today, you would have no idea that little more than a week ago, one of the...
View ArticleAccessibility in the National Day of Civic Hacking
Participating in the National Day of Civic Hacking The first national Hackathon for Change was held on June 1st and 2nd and was every bit as exciting as I anticipated. The event had much of the same...
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What Developers Should Know For A Universally Accessible Internet
This article was originally published in the September 2015 edition of “NTEN: Change“, the quarterly newsletter of NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network) and was crafted by the Marketing Team of...
View ArticleTop 10 Accessibility Milestones in 2008
Knowbility posted this to the web site home page as 2008 turned in 2009. We archive it here: There were major setbacks in the struggle to ensure equitable access for all and there were some great...
View ArticleRandom Notes
Random Notes by Ron Hicks, March, 25 2011 Fair is Fair: For those of you who haven’t kept up…After 20 years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has made a prudent and cautious gesture toward realizing the...
View ArticleKnowbility, AIR and September 11, 2001
Our local NPR station, the daily paper and countless other media spigots are asking for remembrances of 9/11. As my mind goes back to that day and I allow the political to fall away, what I remember...
View ArticleAIR-Interactive 2012 launches at Scholz Garden
Scholz Garden has been serving beer in Austin, Texas since 1866 . And, since 1998, Knowbility’s Accessible web design competition, the Accessibility Internet Rally for Austin (AIR-Austin) holds its...
View ArticleAmplify Austin’s 2019 campaign still not accessible
The 2019 Amplify Austin‘s campaign “I live here, I give here” is just around the corner. As I wrote last year, it‘s a fantastic campaign. A campaign that raises a lot of money for many nonprofits. It‘s...
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Tips for Making Accessible Emails: Text Alternatives for Images
Our series on accessible email continues. In my last post, I explored ways to create subject lines that are more user-friendly to people who are blind or low vision. In this post, I’ll describe ways to...
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Where to Find Knowbility at SxSW 2019
For Austinites, March is SxSW season. It’s an honor for Knowbility to again join this annual tradition. If you are attending SXSW Edu today, catch our session on K-12 accessibility (details below). We...
View ArticleWhere to Find Knowbility at CSUN 2019
The 34th CSUN Assistive Technology Conference will be held in Anaheim, California from March 11-15. Executive Director Sharron Rush), folks from our tech team, and Knowbility board members will be...
View ArticleJoe Devon, co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, to make...
AccessU, Knowbility’s accessibility training conference, starts next week. We’ll have a range of classes covering content, design, coding, and more. For the first time, Los Angeles-based developer and...
View ArticleSkip Links Design Showcase
Every time a page loads, keyboard and screen reader users start at the top of the page, navigating through a header section that contains the organization’s name or page title, site navigation, and who...
View ArticleAvoid Placeholder Text by Animating Form Labels
Placeholder text in forms might be thought of as a user experience add-on, but its real-world use is problematic. While there are several issues with placeholder text, a few points to note are:The text...
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Using a Screen Reader on the new Twitter.com
Twitter.com relaunched with a new look and feel on July 15th. Aiming to be more responsive on desktop, the website simulates a progressive web app. As with any major change on the web, there will be...
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Accessibility Roadshow
This spring, Knowbility had the wonderful opportunity to partner with Salesforce’s Service Cloud in raising awareness about web accessibility. We presented activations at the World Tour in Boston and...
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