Q&A with Jonathan Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Jonathan Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer for SSB Bart Group. Avila is also a participant in the WCAG...
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Q&A with Mirabai Knight, Realtime Captioner
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Mirabai Knight, a realtime captioner. Knight is also a contributor to the StenoSpeak for Android...
Q&A with John Kirkwood, Entrepreneur
This installment of our Accessibility Activists is an interview with John Kirkwood from CityMouse, one of New York’s first independent Internet media agencies. When did you first...
An Interview with Alexander Shutov, Creator of Dark Reader Plugin
This installment of our Accessibility Activists column is an interview with Alexander Shutov, creator of Dark Reader, a Chrome plugin that adjusts the color contrast in your...
Q&A with Thad Johnston: Making a Physical Board Game Accessible for Blind and Low Vision Players
Let’s start from the beginning. How did you come up with the idea of making a board game be accessible? It started early last year, in March, when I started working with a student...
Making a Colorful Video Game Work for Color Blind Gamers
Zuma, a tile-matching puzzle video game created by PopCap Games, continues to be one of the most popular free games on the internet. During play, colored balls roll around the...
How to DJ Using Only Your Eyes
Music allows people around the world to creatively express their thoughts and feelings. For people who share this passion, losing the ability to make music would be a depressing...
Tiny Fonts Don’t Rock the Vote
The New York Times reports that a recent local election frustrated many citizens by printing information on the ballot in a nearly illegible 7pt font. There is no New York state...
日本初の重度障害を抱えた参議院議員にインタビュー
木村英子氏は初めての障害を持った日本の参議院議員です。日本の国会に馴染みがない方の為に少し背景をご紹介したいと思います。日本の国会は二院制です。下院は衆議院で、上院は参議院です。 ...
「しょうがいしゃ」の3つの表記方法。どれ使えばいい？？
「しょうがいしゃ」という言葉を文字にするとき、昨今では主に三つの書き方がみられます。「障害者」が一般的でしたが、近年では「障碍者」や「障がい者」を好む人も多いようです。なぜ人によって異なる表記を好むのか、表記を変えることにどういった意味があるのか、という事についてみていきたいと思います。どうやら、障がいには「医療モデル」と「社会モデル」と呼ばれるものがあるら...