Archive for category: Accessibility

How not to attain 100% captioning (DVD version)    (2006.06.02)

A proposed settlement to a lawsuit claiming that DVDs marked as captioned did not actually contain captioned bonus materials is a bad deal and should be opposed. Here’s why

Luncheon with the gutted    (2006.05.13)

Photos from luncheon with the fired captioners of WGBH

Yet more on CBC captioning    (2006.05.05)

In which I publish a 12,900-word response to CBC about its failure to provide 100% captioning

Paging Jason Fried    (2006.05.04)

Speaking notes and usability-test results available from Iceweb 2006. Topic: Ajax accessibility

Fisking Chris Hofstader    (2006.04.13)

The former vice-president at Freedom Scientific, unloved makers of Jaws, now has a blog. Guess which company he attacks?

Pro-creator zealots    (2006.04.12)

Fisking the Creator’s Copyright Coalition about exemptions for people with perceptual disabilities. Fascinating, I know

Jagged Arial for the visually impaired    (2006.04.02)

How is it even possible to produce type this bad on monitors this expensive?

What a feeling    (2006.03.29)

When a captioner hates his or her job, what does he or she say to his or her husband?

Fisking Eric Rothschild    (2006.03.28)

Correcting an interview with AudioVision Canada consultant Eric Rothschild on an AudioVision Canada–linked radio reading service