I thought the accepted term was «description sonore»

For blinks

‘How many mainstream users would buy an Android phone if it wasn't competitive with the iPhone? What if such users had no web browsing, could not read descriptions in the Android Market…, could only see some buttons with meaningless information on them in order to do things like installing new software, could not use more than half of the standard apps, could not use the on-screen keyboard, could not use the built-in email client, could not use any of the handsets without a built-in hardware keyboard, could not turn it on without assistance and could not do a panoply of other fundamental smart phone activities? The answer, plain and simply, is that a phone with all of these problems would have been the laughing stock of the telecommunications biz’

Via BBC ‘Ouch’

‘The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association has launched an exciting new iPhone app to build awareness of guide dogs and participation in its go walkies events’

“For vision-impaired users of Apple’s iOS devices”

When ‘the author or character’s voice is an artistic element of the work’; then the publisher might turn it off

With visual and tactile illustrations

Check the Failed Redesigns section (under another name)

No, it *was not*

And allegedly available in English, German, and... Tibetan

Using display: none and suchlike (comprehensive)

Sued over Web-site inaccessibility

‘THE FUN PLACE FOR BRAILLE READERS’

Initial testing shows that some or most Ajax applications do not work reliably with screen readers

Concerning Operation Of The Owasys 22C Screenless Talking Cellular Telephone

Tech news for blind

‘Do you sometimes wish you knew whether or not that really popular mainstream program worked with speech before you laid down the money for it?’

Slightly-improved site

AccessWatch blog (with podcasts)

Comments on Maxdesign’s study

Jaws, Window-Eyes, Hal; includes Firefox

Screenless shoephone for blind

He is the only known user of Emacspeak other than its author, T.V. Raman

In Bahasa Indonesia, which is, if you are unaware, a language (by definition: That’s what “bahasa” means), not a place

In New York State

‘Usability’ is not spelled with an E

‘If it looks good you can keep your job; if not, you’re fired. If you can honestly say that you know exactly what that document looks like and that, yes, you’d bet your job on it, turn on the monitor’

Consumer/‘provider’ organization

‘Audio Enriched Links provide previews of linked web pages to users with visual impairments. Before a user follows a hyperlink, the Audio Enriched Links software presents a spoken summary of the next page including its title, its relation to the current

Play DAISY electronic talking books on Macs

‘How would the audio descriptor handle this cock-eyed nudie show?’

‘MozBraille is an extension to transform Mozilla or Firefox to a standalone accessible Internet browser designed for blind or partially-sighted users’

Rentals of videos with audio description

‘This blog [short for “Web log”] is for people interested in digital talking books and the latest news on them’

Bullshit excuses for CAPTCHAs

Research from Nomensa shows mixed reactions to zoom layouts from low-vision and sighted users

Somewhat technical discussion of PDF and accessibility

By James Craig

Yes, you can write audio descriptions for 11 bucks an hour. I think not

In other words, CAPTCHAs