Global Accessibility Awareness Day

RantWoman feels called to take a break from other matters roiling her soul. RantWoman specifically invites Quaker content providers to participate in Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

--RantWoman honors and reveres many weighty Friends who are paper only people. But RantWoman is impatient and prefers things she can access independently.

--RantWoman is deeply grateful to Friends publications that have electronic versions. RantWoman becomes crabby in the presence of various Quaker info streams that exist only on paper with no options for electronic access.RantWoman recognizes that this point of view comes with challenges. For the time being RantWoman is humbly holding in the Light improvements in these realities.

--RantWoman deeply appreciates Quaker blogs.

--RantWoman appreciates a wide variety of sound and video archives. --RantWoman becomes crabby when all kinds of content is published only on paper. RantWoman TRIES to make allowances for old material that is out of print. RantWoman TRIES to make allowances about this but succeeds unevenly. RantWoman thinks Quakers have a lot to say to the world today but unfortunately a lot of the world is digital and just won't find or interact with paper.

--RantWoman greatly esteems Quaker authors who make their work availabe through Amazon. RantWoman is aware of MANY issues for authors. Nevertheless, RantWoman is FAR more likely to interacti with authors' offerings if she can access material independently. RantWoman for example thanks John Calvi for making his forthcoming book available through Amazon and in electronic format! http://johncalvi.blogspot.com/2013/05/29th-beethoven-letter-may-2013.html

RantWoman apologizes in advance that her offering here is raggedy, disjointed, probably overpowering, and generally WAY TOO MUCH. RantWoman encourages Friends to trust your Light and read selectively from the following links for today.

A general enough item about Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Worth reading because it has a couple simple ways people can try to access web content without relying on a mouse. http://www.sitepoint.com/global-accessibility-awareness-day/

Friends who want to wander further into the topic are invited to use your search engines or click on links within the article.

RantWoman likes the Our Daily Bread site for providing material in LOTS of formats with LOTS of ways to adjust presentation.
http://odb.org/

A random good news about new paths to Kindle accessibility / bad news about the federal government item. http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-good-ios-accessibilty-for-kindle.html

RantWoman notes that Global Accessibility Awareness Day is only about accessibility of electronic content;Accessibility is a MUCH bigger area than that, so do what you can, do the best you can, but don't get complacent after dipping toes in only slightly.