Dear AccessWorld readers,
Welcome to the third issue in our new monthly publication schedule! I hope you are enjoying what you told us you wanted: more information, more often.
This month, the AccessWorld team brings you an overview of the book player market, a review of the Vision Free radio, an accessibility check of a few websites named "most useful" by PC World magazine, and a closer look at Yahoo's Frontpage. As our loyal readers know, Bradley Hodges has been covering home appliance accessibility from a non-visual perspective for several years. At a summer conference, it was brought to my attention that readers would like more information on this topic. In direct response to those comments, Bradley has widened his scope and is now looking at home appliance accessibility for people with low vision, concentrating on characteristics such as font size and style of control labeling, color contrast, glare, and the positioning of controls. We hope this will provide useable information for our readers with low vision. At the end of his article, please select the link to take a quick reader survey regarding how those with low vision choose and access home appliances.
If you missed the August issue, or any issue for that matter, you can always search our archives by selecting the back issues link from any AccessWorld webpage. Here, you can search by month and year. You can also enter a search term, such as "cell phones," into the search AccessWorld box, and every online article that contains information on cell phones will be presented.
Please look for us again in October as we recognize National Disability Employment Awareness Month!
Sincerely,
Lee Huffman
AccessWorld Editor-in-Chief
