I invite you to join me tomorrow, January 26, 2017 at DescribeAthon17 when amateur and professional describers around the world will join together to add audio descriptions to YouTube videos.
Working from your home, business, or wherever you have a connection to the Internet, you’ll be part of a group of volunteers worldwide adding audio descriptions to as many YouTube videos as possible in one day. Continue reading DescribeAthon17: Make Video on YouTube More Accessible
Finally! I can only imagine how my fellow accessibility advocates in the United States are celebrating today.
After almost ten years of work, the Section 508 Refresh of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 has been published in the U.S. Federal Register today. Continue reading Section 508 Refresh Published in U.S. Federal Register
Thanks to Accessibility New York City (A11y NYC) livestreaming their January 2017 meetup last night, I was able to attend Shawn Lauriat’s presentation How Learning American Sign Language (ASL) Improved My Alt Text.
Before Lauriat began his presentation, he introduced himself as one of the co-organizers for the A11y NYC meetup group and spoke about his job at Google, working on accessibility for Google Docs and Drive (sounds cool to me!).
I smiled and nodded my head when he said: Continue reading Takeaways from How Learning American Sign Language Improved My Alt Text