Archive: August 2007

The Case of the Missing Parking Space

Posted by Katja on 31 August 2007 | Permalink
Filed under accessibility | 2 comments so far

A couple of months ago, I popped around to the local travel store, Changes in Latitude, looking for some luggage tags. (Complete non sequitur - the store has a URL I bet a Center for Independent Living would love to have.)
But the handicapped parking space that used to be in front of the store was [...]

Mother Goose and Grimm

Posted by Katja on 24 August 2007 | Permalink
Filed under disability, media | 3 comments so far

Seeing Eye dog jokes?. Unimaginative, and not funny.

Airline’s refusal to let disabled passenger board ‘not discrimination,’ court rules

Posted by Katja on 22 August 2007 | Permalink
Filed under accessibility, travel | Comments are closed

Thanks to Elizabeth in her post at Ouch! for finding this one. This is a horrifying step in the wrong direction.

Friday, August 10, 2007 at 05:00 EDT
AMAGASAKI — The Kobe District Court dismissed on Thursday a damages suit filed by a 37-year-old man seeking compensation from Singapore Airlines, claiming the airline’s refusal to let him [...]

Accessible CAPTCHAs?

Posted by Katja on 21 August 2007 | Permalink
Filed under accessibility, blogging, web design | 6 comments so far

Donimo says:
I have two arts-based disability blogs and I was unaware of the problem with captchas. So many people use them to avoid spam comments. How do you avoid this? Can you recommend any sites for guidelines for making an accessible web site?
My personal response, before I go googling, is to say don’t use CAPTCHA. [...]

Linkroll update

Posted by Katja on 15 August 2007 | Permalink
Filed under accessibility, blogging | 2 comments so far

Craig Grimes, who has been MIA for a year at AccessibleConsulting, is now back and blogging at Accessible Everything. I’m looking forward to seeing what he has to say. I would have left a comment, but he’s enabled captchas, which are both disability-unfriendly and cross-platform-unfriendly.