Disability language is a tricky thing. What can you say? What expression is the correct one? How do you avoid offending people? What expression should you be using? It’s tricky, and it keeps changing.
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Blogging about web accessibility and usability, web development, and general topics surrounding these issues
Machine transcription isn’t ready for prime time
As you may know, I host the A11y Rules Podcast and its offshoot, the A11y Rule Soundbites. And I provide transcripts with every show, at the time of publication. Transcripts are expensive to generate if you use human transcriptionists (note, this is not a comment on the value of their work!). There is a lot of talk about using automated transcription services. Recently, the folks from Otter.ai have been pushing for me to give their service another go. And so I did.
Basic accessibility testing
There are tests developers and QA testers can run before getting to more advanced or in-depth accessibility testing. This post discusses some of these tests.
People, transcripts, and money
I am annoyed when people with disabilities or organizations working in the disability and/or accessibility field produce work that isn’t accessible. I’ll even admit to feeling upset about it. This happens more often than one might think. And these problems aren’t new. 15 years ago, I wrote “Disability community? What disability community?” for the Ragged Edge magazine. I already was pointing out issues of how some people in one disability group treat people in other disability groups.
Pappadeaux condones abusive behaviour towards people with disabilities
I went out to dinner with a group of friends and colleagues yesterday. We intended to eat at Pappadeaux. Something Bad happened and neither the restaurant manager nor his staff were willing to do anything about it. As a result, we went somewhere else and we ended up having a great evening!