We’ve just been busy busy busy! Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten Blacktelephone!
I just want to let our readers know that we will be posting at Blacktelephone.com as soon as we can. Please stay tuned!
David Mascarina
BT Blogger :-)
New TTS service aims to boost accessibility
A new text-to-speech (TTS) conversion service could help to significantly improve website accessibility and help businesses make the most of their text-based assets.
This is according to UK firm Textic, whose Talklets Web 2.0 offering is unlike similar solutions in that it is the first TTS application to make use of a commercial software as a service platform. Continue reading “New TTS service aims to boost accessibility”
Rite Aid Cuts Deal For Visually-Impaired Web, POS Support — Storefrontbacktalk
Rite Aid on Thursday announced an extensive set of E-Commerce and POS changes to accommodate visually-impaired consumers, admittedly under an implied litigation threat from advocacy groups.
Accessibility of Campaign Web site: Barack Obama – The Closed Captioning Page
Since the blog article was published, we got some feedback and reactions from the web community as well as the Barack Obama camp. They fixed the video caption page. Well… issues of accessibility remain:
- Why “ghettoize” or create a “digital divide” on the video page, and why can’t the videos be captioned (or have an option to turn on captioning) already? This is synonymous to a “text-only” page.
- Why Lightbox? It is NOT accessible!
- Also, when the script is turned off, so is the capability to access the videos.
- And, when the style is disabled, the links to the video player disappear.
This May be News to Many, but Bobby’s Gone
Just reiterating, for “Bobby” lovers out there… The Bobby Tool is DEAD!
Here’s the notice from Watchfire in regards to Bobby and WebXact.