Haven Daley of the Associated Press goes inside the Yahoo Accessibility Lab where engineers work to find ways for people with disabilities to use the world wide web.
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Lab Works to Make Web Accessible for All, Associated Press
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
What Does a Describer Do?
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
by Jan Stankus
Courtesy of ©ITV for Masterpiece
Detective Hercule Poirot stares at the porter. Shadows accent his thick arched eyebrows, piercing dark eyes, and tight thin lips. His neat, waxed moustache curls up at the corners.
-From Murder on the Orient Express starring David Suchet.
When I tell people I’m a Describer, they usually say something like, “Oh! You write those words that appear on the bottom of the TV screen!” Then I patiently say, “No. That’s captioning. Description is different. Description makes TV-programs, films, art exhibits, and more accessible to people who are blind or who have low vision.”
Victor Tsaran TEDxSiliconValley
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Victor Tsaran speaks at Tedx Sillicon Valley at about his transformation through technology and how it helped him overcome societies assumptions about his abilities
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