Archive for category: Accessibility

Reasons to care    (2006.07.30)

Why, exactly, I give a shit about CBC captioning (something given a more colourful name by the Tea Makers)

Research advice for our dear British friends    (2006.07.27)

In which I petition Ofcom for new research on fonts for captioning. Junk science has got to stop someday

Qualitative vs. quantitative    (2006.07.09)

Ideas for measuring accessibility

‘Ckear Print’    (2006.07.07)

The CNIB (sorry, “cnib”) muffs it yet again, this time with published guidelines on making print accessible

CBC Watch, as it were    (2006.07.04)

Now I’m publishing all my documentation of CBC captioning errors and omissions

The freakonomics of audio description    (2006.07.02)

Like captioning, audio description is a field where numbers don’t tell you anything of much use

The eternal charms of Jim Roots    (2006.06.30)

An old letter (from 1998) from Jim Roots of the Canadian Association of the Deaf

Problems facing audio description    (2006.06.16)

Just what it says. And some of them are bullshit problems

How not to achieve 100% captioning (parliamentary version)    (2006.06.13)

In which I am quoted in an industry newsletter