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- Excluded from Confoo speaker dinner – what happened and how it made me feel.
- Pet pigs aren’t service animals
- Role=”text” is (presently) kinda not a thing, sorta.
- Words have power
- Audio transcripts are important
- Heading headache
- When branding colours conflict with colour contrast requirements
- Conversation with Josh Simmons
- Using Scrivener for podcasting
- Conversation with Denis Boudreau
- Moving vans – an every day barrier
- Conversation with Robert Jolly
- Moving to the US for work, yes or no?
- Doored by a driver because of construction
- Justifying discrimination because of ignorance of the law
- My wheelchair, a precision crafted tool
- Comments on Canadian proposed Service dog team standards
- The most accessible self-driving bus, or is it?
- Overriding CSS to help with ADHD
- I am not cruel to my service dog
- Accessibility is about people, not standards
- Web accessibility – It’s good for everyone
- How to make your conference accessible – and why you should care!
2016
2015
2014
2013
- Montreal in the snow
- First Snow of the Season
- Copyright, Accessibility, and Ableism
- Follow Up Post About Lack of Accessibility of STL Busses.
- Wasting 90 Minutes Waiting To Get In
- Refused Boarding The Public Bus Because Of My Wheelchair
- Lung Transplants From People Who Were Euthanased
- High Elderly Suicide Rate
- Disabled People Should Be Killed Says Google
- What’s Wrong About Going On Stage In A Wheelchair?
- Digital Access to Tertiary Education – GAAD Day
- Our Homes, Not Nursing Homes
- Disability in Movies, Television and on the Stage
- Denis Boudreau Suggests A New Approach to Web Accessibility
- A Disappointing Evening at Confoo
- Accessibility: No Rights Without Responsibilities
- 10 Lessons (re)Learned From Wheeling To Work
- Disability Simulations, Perceptions, etc
2012
- TIANZ Survey About Disability Misses The Mark
- Wit or Ignorance?
- Nicolas Steenhout to Present 2 Papers at Confoo 2013
- Stop Empowering Me!
- Advocating for Disability Assistance Dogs
- NZ Will Increase Online Service Delivery – Don’t Forget People With Disabilities
- Technology Used to Counter Abuse of Disability Parking
2011
- New Zealand Media Continues To Use Inappropriate Disability Language
- Taking Advantage Of Web Technologies To Increase Service Provision And Decrease Costs
- When Admiration Reflects Low Expectations
- Wheelchair Innovations and Designs
- Disappointing Level of Accessibility from Australian Web Industry 2011 Entries
- 20 Years of ADA in the USA – Have Things Really Changed?
- Curb Cut To Nowhere
- Verizon Settles A Disability Discrimination Employment Suit For US$20 Million
- Air New Zealand’s Grabaseat Discriminate Against People With Disabilities
- Jack Kevorkian Dies at Age 83
- Disability Humour Is Part Of Disability Culture
- Poaching The Only Accessible Toilet
- NZ Labour Billboard Website Not Accessible
- The Ultimate Disability Discrimination
- Jetstar In Good Company Discriminating Against Passengers With Disabilities
- Jetstar Shows Pattern Of Discrimination Against People With Disabilities
- Jetstar Is Screwing Up For People With Disabilities, Again
- ADA Amendments Act – Changes to Definition of Disability
- Rebuilding Christchurch – An Opportunity For Accessibility
- NH State Rep Suggests People With Disabilities Should Be Sent To Siberia
- Everyday Devices As Assistive Technology
- Jetstar Continually Fails Passengers With Disabilities
- Lawsuit Against Disney For Lack Of Accessibility
- Laws and Henry, Peas of a Pod
- A Cartoon
- Screw Screen Readers
- I Was Not Begging
- Blind And In A Wheelchair
- Lowest Bid Policy Ensures Lack Of Accessibility?
- Defining Disability – Or Trying To Anyway
- No Wheelchair Division At Toronto Marathon
- Use The Disability Card – Get Out Of Jail Free
- Customer Service – Kudos to Countdown / Woolworths
- Mass Grave of Disabled People Found – They Were Murdered By Nazis
2010
- Humour, Irony, Disablism and Sexism – Haecksen T-Shirt LCA2011
- Difficult Sidewalks, Impossible Curb Cuts
- Copyright, Universities, Course Content
- Involuntary Euthanasia by Proxy
- Called For Jury Duty – Again – Better Luck Next Time
- Kindle, eBooks, Print Book, etc
- Should Sighted Developers Use Screenreaders To Test Accessibility?
- The Evolution of Assistive Technology into Everyday Products
- Thoughts on Physical vs. Web Accessibility
- UQAT Prefers To Pay for Soccer Field Than Disabled Student’s Safety
- Using A Wheelchair And Fueling Up At Petrol Station
- Rex, the Robotic Exoskeleton
- Camber on my Wheelchair
- Unintentional Discrimination – Custom Built Applications
- Wheelchair DUI
- Overheard Conversation Between 2 Supermarket Clerks
- wUnderGlow – Neat Gadget to Improve Wheelchair Safety
- Fatigue, Pain, Assumptions, And The Spoon Theory
- Presenting About “The Evolution of Assistive Technology into Everyday Products”
- I’m Not Cured Because I Don’t Believe In God
- Disability Theme Park
- Ada Lovelace Day 2010 – Elder Women
- Deafies, Exams, Accommodations
- International Women’s Day
- Awesome Ads Presenting "The Disabled" In A Different Light
- Slides for Accessibility Presentation At LCA2010 Business Miniconf
- Why I Do Not Like The Word ‘Lame’
- Opposing The Legalisation Of Physician Assisted Suicide
- No Caption On Your Video? I Can’t Get Your Content!
- They Did Not Think Of Every Details
- A Rather Healthy Attitude Towards Wheelchairs
- Accessibility And The Business Of Open Source
- The Mentalist, Wheelchairs, And Scuffed Shoes
- Baen Books Offers Free eBooks For People With Disabilities
- Ten Years Ago, A Snow Storm
2009
- Complaint Upheld Against Paul Henry, So What?
- Is It Any Wonder I’m An Advocate At Heart?
- No, Mr. Henry, The Word ‘Retard’ Is Not Appropriate.
- How I Will Caption My Videos
- Google & YouTube to Offer Automatic Video Captioning
- I Nearly Killed Myself – Accessibility Hazards On Campus
- Why I Issued A DMCA Takedown Notice To Facebook
- Flash Photography A Barrier To Participation
- ACC Slashing Home And Vehicle Modification Funds – Unconscionable
- Wheelchair Users Are Good For Cake!
- People Are Asking For Universal Web Accessibility, And They Don’t Know It!
- A Story Of Wix – Coming Out Of Retirement For A Day
- The Holocaust Began With People With Disabilities
- To Get On The Public Busses
- And They Wonder Why People With Disabilities Feel Oppressed?
- Euthanasia
- You Did Not Lose Me As A Customer, You Pushed Me Away!
- Wheelchair-Bound? I Don’t Think So!
- Wheelchair User’s Car Clamped – An Outrage
- Paralympics NZ – When Web Professionals Don’t Do Their Job Right
- Five, count them, 5 photos of disability parking infractions in 1 hour
- Brush Off From NZ Minister of Transport
- Flying Chihuahua!
- All Wheelchair Users Look Alike, Don’t They?
- HTC Magic – First Impressions
- Stellar Customer Service From Vodafone NZ
- Wanting An iPhone Is Not Snobbery
- I Offer To Build An Accessible Website For The Nevada Blind Children Foundation
- Lack of Accessibility Symptomatic of Something Else?
- Beware The Special Forces
- Neither Lesson Nor Vengeance
- Last One Aboard The Plane
- Disabilities And Purchasing Power
- Out Of The Mouth Of Babes
- Memories Of Disability Rights Protests And Police Officers
- I Use A Wheelchair. Does That Make Me Wheelchair-Bound?
- Public’s Attitudes – Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009
- Lynne Pope and Ada Lovelace Day
- S92a, Recording Industry and Hypocrisy Impacting on People With Disabilities
2008
- A Follow Up To My Accusation Post
- I Accuse – GPL Zealots are Killing Open Source
- Web Accessibility and Content Management Systems
- Nicolas Steenhout to Present at OSDC 2008
- Google Chrome Browser Released with No Thoughts of Accessibility
- Test-Driving Woopra
- Compliance badges
- To each their own job(s)
- Alt Attributes Can Be Tricky
- What About User Responsibility?
- Outdated browsers
- Automated Testing Tools
- When Usability and Accessibility Conflict
- Accessibility Costs Too Much
- He Ain’t Blind, but He’s Got no Vision
- The Accessibility Guidelines are Just a Starting Point
- Accessibility is not Just for Screenreader Users
- You Can’t Make a Site Work for Everyone
- Google, the Largest Blind User on the ‘Net
- Managed Solutions Suck
- Respecting WCAG does not Ensure Accessibility
- Consider the Ease of Reading, and the Language Level