If You Can, Help Our Friend Ro Go On A Baseball Vacation

Some of you may be familiar with our friend Ro. If you aren’t, you should head over to her blog and get to know her. She’s pretty neat. To get you started, here’s her story. I’m not the type who cares all that much for tagging another human being an inspiration since that word gets …

CBC Wants To Be More Accessible. Go CBC!

I meant to post this last week, but here it is now. Oh well, a week is a marked improvement compared to how long it usually takes me to post things. I went to Accessibility Camp Toronto last Saturday. I love going to those things. I always pick up tidbits of information, plus get re-energized. …

Help The Arrogant Worms Pay For Their New Album

The Arrogant Worms, who you should learn to love if you don’t already love them, have started a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for their next album. It’s been up for a while already and looks like it’s doing pretty well ($4,527 of the $6,000 goal already raised as of this writing with 49 days …

Mobile And Wearable Technology Accessibility Survey

Some researchers from the University of Maryland are in need of people to take part in a quick survey about the accessibility of mobile phone and wearable technologies. They say it should take you no more than 20-25 minutes, but I’d be surprised if it took me any longer than 15. It only took me …

Grinding Out 1-6-2: Help Fund A Book About Following The Blue Jays Around Next Season

Following a baseball team everywhere it goes for an entire season and writing a book about the experience seems like such an obvious idea once you hear it, so why has nobody come up with it or done it yet? I don’t know, but Neal Smith would like to, and he’d like your help. GRINDING …

Anybody Want To Go To A Barenaked Ladies And Ben Folds Five Concert Tomorrow?

Sorry for the short notice, but it’s worth a try, I figure. Our old pal the Shoe Thief has two tickets to tomorrow night’s (Thursday, July 11th, 2013) Barenaked Ladies and Ben Folds Five concert at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto, but unfortunately it looks like he and his guest won’t be able to use …

Help Test Out Some New Audio CAPTCHAs

I haven’t done this yet, but if you’d like to help these folks out I’m sure they’d appreciate it. The aim of this experiment is to investigate the usability of a new type of audio CAPTCHA. CAPTCHAs are online tests that are used to distinguish between humans and computers. The experiment will take about five …

A Quick Mobile Accessibility Survey

If Carin were here this would be her department, but she’s not, so here goes. Mobile technology is a new and thriving frontier for accessibility. Seasoned accessibility professionals are anxious to help mobile developers deliver accessible experiences. More information is needed to understand both usage patterns and hardware/software platforms, to guide decisions to meet the …

Aftershokz Headphones Rock!

Man I’m a chatterbox right now. Well, I figure I’d better get it in before I go back to work and hardly have time to think. A little while ago, I had heard about these headphones called Aftershokz. All I knew about them was they were a type of those bone conduction headphones I’d heard …

Happy Birthday To…Me!

Yes, it really is that time again. I have no idea where the hell this year went but I’ll be honest, I’m glad it’s going. For a lot of people (myself included), 2012 has bitten it pretty hard. I didn’t almost die like in 2011, but that doesn’t mean people close to me didn’t or …