Blind Access Journal

Anyone who has delivered a live technology demonstration knows the feeling: you are driving the screen reader, narrating every keystroke for your audience, fielding questions, and somewhere in the back of your mind trying to remember which example comes n…

Khan Academy recently published a recap of its Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) celebration, written by Elizabeth Barker, Senior Technical Program Manager for Accessibility.

Happy Top Tip Thursdayh, everyone!

Ever want to peek under the hood of a web page without having to open browser developer tools?

For years, push-to-talk over cellular (POC) radios have offered something remarkable: the reach of a nationwide radio network, without the limitations of traditional two-way radio.

FastSM is a popular accessible client for Bluesky and Mastodon, and for the most part it works beautifully with screen readers like JAWS and NVDA.

As a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA), I spend my days ensuring the web works for everyone.

When Google launched Auto Browse for Gemini in Chrome in January 2026, a few of us in the blind and low-vision community felt a familiar surge of hope.

There’s a particular kind of patience that only musicians develop — the ability to sit with a student through a hundred failed attempts at a chord, knowing that the hundred-and-first try will produce something beautiful.

Published in support of the National Federation of the Blind‘s March 2026 call to action.

Great news for screen reader users who rely on Slack’s Simplified Layout Mode: the accessibility regression we reported last month has been resolved.

Imagine you are blind.

AI as an Accessibility Bridge: Testing Gemini’s Auto Browse For blind and low-vision users, the modern web is a minefield of good intentions gone wrong.

What started as a seven-day experiment ended with a new primary screen reader.

In this video, Darrell Hilliker (CPWA) demonstrates a critical accessibility regression in Slack version 4.47.69.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Blind Access Journal Launches Community Effort to Improve WSJT-X Accessibility for Aging and Disabled Amateur Radio Operators Peoria, Arizona — December 20, 2025 — Darrell Hilliker, NU7I, a totally blind Amateur Radio operator and ac…

Summary Some people experience severe headaches or migraines that make screen use difficult—especially when light sensitivity (photophobia) and flicker or refresh effects are major triggers.

Introduction Artificial intelligence has the potential to dramatically level the playing field for blind and visually impaired people.

At the intersection of the Salesforce ecosystem and the accessibility community, it has been long known that Experience Builder contains task-blocking accessibility issues that hold many disabled people back from being able to perform important job duties…

Starting all the way back in April of 2024, Google announced a new tabs feature for Google Docs, providing another way of organizing information in documents similar to that already found in spreadsheets.

Unlocking the Power of AI Presented by the National Federation of the Blind of Arizona The future is here, and it’s smarter than ever.

It was one of those Mondays… No, wait.

From enterprise collaboration software to web browsers, the little-known F6 keyboard shortcut can do many things that make our lives as blind computer users much easier and more productive.

In this approximately 13-minute podcast, take a short break from all the pandemic news and listen to us decorate our Christmas tree.

In this approximately 48-minute podcast, Allison Hilliker tries to avail herself of Maricopa County’s almost-but-not-quite-accessible Braille ballot.