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accessibility

  • Become a silver surfer: Computing for senior citizens

    21 Jan 2011
    Last week and this week I spent most of the time researching and writing about accessibility in computing. (You can read the first post and go from there if you're interested.) During my research I came across many references to computing for seniors (seniors being a group that also often prefers and...

  • Crabby + Accessibility: Create for all audiences

    19 Jan 2011
    Last week I wrote about what accessibility is and who it's for , and this past Monday I talked about what accessibility features are already available to you in Windows . For today's post (which is the last one in this series) I'm going to give you a snapshot of what accessibility features and technologies...

  • Crabby + Accessibility: See better, hear better, navigate better

    17 Jan 2011
    Last week we talked about what accessibility means and who these accessibility features are for . Today I want to point you toward some resources that I'm hoping will 1) help you use your computer more efficiently and comfortably; and 2) make you aware of technologies that are out there, even if you...

  • Dear Crabby: What's up with those wacky keyboard keys?

    14 Jan 2011
    Late last December I wrote a post to remind you about the ribbon roadmaps , interactive guides that you can download and use as reference workbooks. Today is about a comment I received on that post that had absolutely nothing to do with roadmaps at all... Or did it? Barbara Leedom, a spunky retired schoolteacher...

  • Crabby + Accessibility series: Who's it for?

    12 Jan 2011
    In Monday's post , I attempted to explain what "accessibility" means in terms of computing, while tossing out some statistics about what portion of the general population has issues with vision, hearing, and dexterity. But, as someone so deftly pointed out to me, there is another group of people I left...

  • Crabby + Accessibility: What is it?

    10 Jan 2011
    Since I'm going to be writing some accessibility-related posts in the coming weeks and today is the first of that series, I want to refresh your brains about (or maybe tell you for the first time) what "accessibility" means in the context of computing. First let me tell you this (and yes, I've said it...