At the Involving People with Disabilities in User Experience Research webinar, hosted by UserTesting.com, Sarah Horton shared insights learned from including people with disabilities in her user research.

It's time to be serious about true access for students with disabilities.

Lots of visual space makes processing text easier for a subset of dyslexics.

A discussion of how librarians can use apps to serve children with autism.

Having written a column a couple of weeks ago expressing skepticism, even cynicism, about the prospect of the international diplomatic conference sponsored in Marrakesh by the World Intellectual Property Organization actually producing a treaty on copyright exceptions for the blind and visually impaired, I was both pleased and surprised to hear that such a treaty was agreed to by the delegates in the wee hours of June 25.

The World Intellectual Property Organization’s Treaty to Faciiitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired. Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities (the “Treaty for the Blin…

During these last two weeks of June, delegates to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) are meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, to negotiate around a proposed treaty on Limitations and Exceptions for Visually Impaired Persons. Such a treaty would require that each country allow copies of copyrighted materials that are compatible with assistive software to be made.. Such an exception would be very limited, and would serve a very laudable purpose. So it is fair to ask why it has taken so long, seen several reversals on the part of the U.S. administration, and remains controversial.

Great intro.

The MPAA has been trying to rehabilitate its image concerning its well documented attempts to screw over the blind and the deaf in...

Dear Hollywood: Plz drop dead, kthx.

During a visit to Egypt two years ago, George Kerscher, Secretary General of the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium, found that the country’s major libraries had only a very small collection of books available for print-disabled patrons. And while staff and volunteers were working to make more books accessible, output was limited to only a handful of titles each year. Discerning this as an outsider, ­Kerscher (who is blind himself) realized that it was very much a microcosm of how the process of producing accessible books has traditionally functioned in the United States.