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I recently sat down with UKAAF board member Jeff Mills, who has a particular focus for us on HTML, Office Documents and PDFs for us. With over 25 years’ experience in the document industry and amazing track record in making a difference in accessible documents, Jeff’s CV includes numerous landmarks like being involved in the first ever project to create accessible PDF statements for the Web. Many UKAAF members will be familiar with the important commercial work he’s doing with his company Grackledocs, the only Google Add-Ons that check and remediate output from Google Workspace to make it more accessible.
All that means it’s always worth talking to him, but we had been intrigued by a comment in an email about what sort of a future he wants UKAAF to have.
Did you know that
Braille’s roots lie in a Napoleonic Army system for communicating in battlefield conditions
That you can learn it at any age
That it draws inspiration from how dominoes are numbered
And that music notation has been a part of the system since its official debut in 1829?
These are just some of …
Completely free and with over 34,000 titles, RNIB’s ‘Talking Books’ service offers audio fiction and non-fiction content for members to access, borrow and enjoy. And now, thanks to a new partnership between the charity and Amazon, the thousands of members with the Alexa home voice assistant find they have a great new ‘skill’: accessing great …
Sometimes, when it comes to the long fight to improve visual accessibility that UKAAF members and supporters are engaged in, a little bit of grass roots brilliance can go a long way to keep you optimistic. And the wonderful news I spotted on the BBC’s Newsround channel for younger viewers surely fits that description to …
Expertly and courteously chaired by our still relatively new UKAAF chair Roger Firman, the 13th annual UKAAF AGM has just successfully concluded.
In cyberspace again for the second time (thanks to a certain novel coronavirus), the event was ‘standing room only’ for board members and the many enthusiastic (and patient!) attendees via Zoom (32 all told) …
What links the 12-inch vinyl record, the computer keyboard, and even the text recognition software that laid the foundation for the modern database?
The answer: they were all initially brought to market for blind consumers. So it would seem everyone benefits if more people with disabilities are involved with making tools and systems—but it’s a message …
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), when the world is invited to get everyone “talking, thinking and learning” about digital access and inclusion.
Once you know that GAAD is all about the more than 1 billion people who are living with some form of disability or impairment, you will see why. The idea of the …