At CSUN 12, I attended an interesting but somewhat disconcerting demonstration of Google’s progress on making their Google Docs suite accessible. The presentation was by Anne Taylor from the National Foundation of the Blind and Jeff Harris, the product manager for Google Docs. They clearly agreed on one core point: that Google Docs was definitely not ready for users with disabilities. So, the demonstration was more a show of the range of changes which Google has been adding to make […]
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We need to have a talk with marketing
We need to have a talk with marketing. So, I’m sitting at CSUN 2012. It’s after the keynote, but before the first sessions of the conference – and some of the very key points of difference between the marketing and accessibility world are making themselves very clear. Most of the conferences I’ve attended in the past were marketing-oriented – and even where the subject of the conversations are similar, the overall impulse behind the issues is radically different. The simple […]
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