Ceci n'est pas un blog

Ceci n'est pas une blague, non plus... simply a random collection of rants, ravings, rhetoric, and - occasionally - reason...

wait a minute -- what's with all the stuff on this page that's french to me?

Rants

• Be Patriotic - Boycott ALL Motor Sports (coming soon)
• Fuck the V-Chip - Where's My D-Chip?
• Audio Description for Indicating Audio Description
• Don't Blame Me, I Voted For... (links to political musings)
• Required Listening
  • Accessible Audio Players (all free!)
• Required Reading
• Quality Assurance Must Begin and End with the User
• SARSI: An Introduction to Speech-Access Realities for Interested Sighted Internauts (1996)

Examples of Accessibility

• Accessible Blasphemy
• Reformatted AMG & ACG Search Forms
• Accessible ATM Finder for Bank of America ATMs
• Accessible GMail Feedback Survey Form Options
• Accessible & Validated Google Scholar Basic Search Form
• Proposed Test Suite for UAAG 1.0

Independent Accessibility Initiatives

• A List Apart (for People Who Make Websites)
• Accessible Signage Now!
• UBATS: United Blind Advocates for Talking Signs

Complimentary Accessibility Initiatives

• HTML4all: an open space for dialogue, research and data collection
• Web Standards Project (WaSP)
  1. Accessibility Task Force

Ancient (At Least in Internet Terms) Independent Accessibility Initiatives

• AVA: The Accessibility Volunteer Alliance (1997)
• IAAP: The InterNet Aural Accessibility Protocol (1997)
• Constructing Aurally Comprehensible Tables Using HTML 3.2

Jazz Hounds & Other Fauna Exotica
(Caution: There be vipers here.)

• Celebrate Duke Ellington's Centennial
• Celebrate the Satchtennial (It Ain't Over 'Til Mankind's Over)
• Celebrate the Fatsentennial (liquid eggs & bacon optional, but recommended)
• Healing Rhythms: An Interview with Darrell Rose

This document was created November 7, 2004
Last updated February 4, 2008