Twitter And Assistive Tech

Dennis Lembree (@dennisl) and Joseph O’Connor (@csunwebmaster) are presenting “Accessibility of Twitter for Mobile, Desktop and Web” at the 25th Annual International Technology and Persons With Disabilities Conference in San Diego, California. The conference dates are from March 22 to 27. The presentation is scheduled at 8 a.m., Thursday, March 25.

You Can Help!

We are asking you to tweet about using Twitter with assistive tech on two topics:

• How do you deal with the interfaces?
• How has Twitter changed things for you?

Optional: audio record the written Tweets at http://twaud.io/ or whatever you want to use. If you do record, please be sure to record what you have written in each Tweet you write. Write a Tweet, record that Tweet. You don’t have to record your Tweets to participate.

Accessible Twitter

This might be a good time to try Dennis Lembree’s Accessible Twitter site and to Tweet about the experience.

How We’ll Use Your Tweets

We will use the Tweets/audio in our #csun10 presentation. We’ll present the Tweets on screen and hear the words – something for everyone. We’ll be looking for patterns such as the use of desktop applications with ZoomText, or mobile text with Talks, or mobile app with VoiceOver. These patterns will be touch-points for our presentation.

Hashtag

The hashtag for these Tweets will be #csun10s with the “s” representing story.

When Do I Start?

The days/dates we’ll be collecting Tweets and audio are Friday, February 26 – Saturday, February 27 in the northern hemisphere; Saturday, February 27 – Sunday, February 28 in the southern hemisphere.

Be Creative!

Feel free to be creative, to have fun, to be serious, to be furious, to be whoever you are. You know you want to do it!

NOTE:
This article on Joseph O’Connor’s web site Black Telephone

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Dennis and guest Jennison Asuncion discuss the upcoming CSUN conference, formally titled The 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. Discussion includes helpful hints about the conference, session previews, and special events. The event is March 22-27 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown San Diego, California.

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Related Links:

• WebAIM’s 2010 CSUN Session Lineup
• Adobe at CSUN 2010
• Twitter list: Speakers at CSUN 2010
• CSUN Tweetup

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Another set of great links on web accessibility for March 2010. In addition, see below for post-CSUN links, roundups and presentations!

• Be Kind to the Color Blind – ColourLovers
• Why Captioning? – Stanford University
• Stop Using JAWS for Web Accessibility Testing? – Clear Helper
• Making the mobile internet accessible for all – ComputerWeekly
• NCAA college basketball tournament bracket – Terrill Thompson
• Problems with CAPTCHA and audio CAPTCHA alternative – groups.drupal
• What Is A Braille Display And How It Is Used – Even Grounds
• Call for speaker proposals for “13th Annual Accessing Higher Ground” conference. First round due April 2.
• Why websites shouldn’t accommodate disabled users – by Pete Love (e.g. use universal design)
• Accessibility Review: Target.com – by Joe Dolson (post lawsuit)
• Screen Readers And WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles – Léonie Watson
• Variations on Ginader’s [Awesome] Accessible Tabs – Accessible Culture
• Accessibility of Links by Steve Grobschmidt
• Web Accessibility Preferences Are For Sissies? – WebAIM
• Boston Accessibility Unconference is May 15
• Web Accessibility Fears and Ways to Conquer Them – Even Grounds

CSUN Summaries

• CSUN Conference 2010 – great summary by Nicholas Zakas
• Insights into the 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference – The DAISY Planet
• CSUN 2010 recap – Marco of Mozilla
• More Audio Coverage of CSUN 2010 – Blind Bargains [no transcriptions]
• CSUN photos from Dennis – a dozen or show snapshots

CSUN Presentations

• Stanford Captioning System: A Workflow Model for Producing Captioned Media – includes link to PDF of presentation
• Download the Adaptech presentation on social media use & accessibility; view the entire survey, too.
• Importance of Accessibility for a Successful and Future-Proof Business – Artur Ortega of Yahoo
• Accessibility of Twitter – by and Joseph O’Connor and Dennis Lembree

Addendum

• Adobe Slides from CSUN 2010 Talks
• DAISY Consortium’s Presentation at CSUN (captioned video)
• Point-and-Chat info and presentations (AAC application)
• Presentations from WebAIM – great stuff!

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• Why selling what your market needs will actually lead to a huge amount of lost profit

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If you missed it from Twitter a month-and-a-half ago, Steve Grobschmidt (@AquinasWI) published an interview with accessibility expert Jennison Asuncion (@Jennison) in a 3-part series. It’s published on Steve’s blog “the art of web accessibility”. I recommend reading the interview as well as checking out Steve’s blog. Both Steve and Jennison are excellent contributors to the web accessibility community.

• Jennison Interview – Part 1
• Jennison Interview – Part 2
• Jennison Interview – Part 3
• You can also find Jennison on LinkedIn.

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Items Mentioned in This Episode

• Revised FTC Endorsement and Testimonial Guidelines

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