This week we have several articles and videos about people who push past disability boundaries. We’ll show you how people are expressing their personal spaces with mental, physical, and artistic expressions.
Asheley Fiolek is a member of the Red Bull motocross racing team, her deafness doesn’t keep her from tearing up the track and leaving competitors in the dust. Jhamak Kumari Ghimire was recently awarded for her poetry, dizAbled features comic strips from the wheelchair athlete perspective, and two dogs in wheelchairs bring new hope to patients in Texas.
Watch videos with Yahoo! Web Player
We’ve also added a new feature to our weekly list of articles. You no longer need to leave the page to view the videos. We are using the new Yahoo! Web Player to automatically insert play buttons next to any link for YouTube movies. Selecting a play button will open a new player on the page.
The web player is accessible and you can control it via the keyboard.
- Press control + shift + space to start a video. Try it right now.
- Move to next video: shift + arrow right
- Move to previous video: shift + arrow left
- Adjust the volume up: shift + arrow up
- Adjust the volume down: shift + arrow down
Unfortunately closed captions are not displayed at this point. We are hoping the next version of the web player will restore closed captions. In the meantime, you can visit Youtube to enjoy the Blind Film Critic with captions.
- Pro MX Rider Ashely Fiolek – Red Bull Commercial
Watch this commercial for Red Bull more than once to enjoy the power of Ashley Fiolek. 
Transformational Tea Kettles
Universal Design as seen through products by Michael Graves and OXO.
Hemianopia Tool for Firefox by the Yahoo! Accessibility Lab
Hemianopia is a visual disability often associated with strokes and brain injuries. Yahoo Accessibility Lab is proud to announce a Firefox plugin that could make it easier for people with hemianopia to browse the web.
Yahoo! Careers – Nate Ebrahimoon
Nate Ebrahimoon, part of the Yahoo! Accessibility Lab, is interviewed about his experience as an intern and subsequent career at Yahoo.- Spina Bifida Animation
What causes Spina Bifida? This video animation details the birth defect. 
Yahoo! Accessibility Lab’s Facebook photos
The Accessibility Team from Intuit came to visit the lab this week.
Fall Leaves – Starbucks Card
Starbucks is celebrating National Disability Awareness Month with an attractive fall-themed card that features braille.
Inspiration on wheels: Disabled dogs visit rehab patients
Chili and Arlo are therapy dogs with their own wheelchairs. They work with patients at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitiation in Dallas
The Blind Film Critic: Tommy Goes to a Driving Range
If you think that blind people can’t golf, Tommy Edison aka The Blind Film Critic is here to prove you wrong!- Sensor Subtitution for the Blind
This technology is perhaps a new definition of “being able to see” for people who are blind - Florida School for the Deaf and Blind
Find out how the teachers at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind have found solutions for teaching students with different abilities at the same time. 
Nepal’s prize-winning poet with cerebral palsy
Jhamak Kumari Ghimire, 30, won the Madan Puraskar prize for her book of autobiographical essays, “Is life a thorn or a flower?”
Bright Hands Glow Gloves
“The gloves are designed for signing in the dark, however, you can get creative and find other uses for the glove” … Universal Design is universally understood
Capti Web Player
How about listening to the web pages on your iPhone? Well, there’s an accessible app for that! Meet Capti Web Player
Deaf Like Me
Welcome to Brooke Waynes’ world of silence in this humorous video.
Wheelchair Cartoons – dizABLED
These wheelchair cartoons are terrific! Perfect! Send exactly the right message.
Bodynets 2011
The Bodynets conference in China could lead to some very interesting advances in health monitoring and communication devices.
- Guess what?!? Vitalsource Bookshelf, an incredible e-book software, is #accessible through download, online, and mobile #a11y @rickj
- Betty White introduces Guide Dogs for the Blind #blind #a11y
- RT @ydn: Save the dates (November 1-4) for YUIConf 2011 #yuiconf #yui
- You can now go to where your wheelchair takes you: Leverage Freedom Chair
- Powerful story RT @dawnfutrell: An aspiring chef loses her sense of smell – Eatocracy – CNN.com Blogs
- Text Grabber is an iPhone app that uses the camera to do OCR on signs, receipts, etc How would you use it? #a11y #ios
- 2 words: Refreshable Braille! Watch this video to see how to drive an iPhone using a refreshable braille display #a11y
Tags: Ashley Fiolek, Blindness, Cerebral Palsy, hemianopia, Michael Graves, Spina bifida, Universal design, wheelchair, YouTube
