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And no more shitty subtitle fonts, either.

Well, they will admittedly remain shitty for a while, but the end of shittiness is nigh, for I have launched a project that will commission and design and then test a series of fonts custom-engineered for the demands of reading captions and subtitles. This is for real.

Read the new site, Screenfont.ca, and for the love of God stop using Arial.

The Vision 2005 conference takes place in April in London. And there seem to be dozens of presentations of interest, listed here in chronological order. I’ll certainly be looking these up.

1. Paciello, Michael: “Enhancing accessibility through usability inspections and usability testing”
2. Krister Inde: “See Bad – Feel Good and the impact of Rock ’n’ Roll on Low Vision: How to live a meaningful life with control of context, a good feeling of satisfaction and rock and roll”
3. Lagace, Ivan: “The introduction of DAISY talking book services for the learning disabled”
4. Gardner, Jeff: “Transforming computer and paper documents to be accessible by vision, touch and audio”
5. Hillis, Catherine: “Inclusive leisure provision through audio description”
6. Snyder, Joel: “Audio description: the visual made verbal” (yet again)
7. Jayaraman, Deiva: “Positives and negatives of E-learning by visually impaired students”
8. Marston, James: “Improving the user interface of GPS navigation systems for blind people: spatialized displays that augment speech information”
9. Zelek, John: “Seeing by touch (haptics) for wayfinding”
10. Drescher, Lucy: “Technology and the needs of deaf-blind people”
11. Wiener, William: “Comparative study of auditory output of hybrid vehicles and internal combustion vehicles”
12. Paciello, Michael: “Assessing usability and accessibility using remote evaluation environments”
13. Hager, Rachel: “VisionConnection: an accessible, global internet portal for people who are visually impaired, their friends and family and professionals”
14. Petrie, Helen: “Accessibility of the World Wide Web for visually impaired people: findings from the Disability Rights Commission Formal Investigation”
15. Smillie, Donna: “Euroaccessibility: seeking a consistent approach to Web accessibility in Europe”
16. Smith, Audrey: “Assessment of functional visual fields and pictorial representations in narrative reports”
17. Cook, Geoffrey: “The legibility and conspicuity of emergency escape route signage for people with visual impairments”
18. Mann, David: “The same book, at the same time and at the same price: turning rights into reality”
19. King, Stephen: “A better way to watch TV: all you need to know to enable your client to get more from their TV viewing”
20. Vasilko, Milan: “a-TV: a new inclusive digital television technology”
21. Evans, Denise: “Digital broadcasting: threat or opportunity”
22. Alam, Shamsul: “Not just a technical fix: rethinking rehabilitation for visually impaired people from minority ethnic communities”
23. Dickinson, Anne: “Don’t panic (smile)! How visually impaired students access online learning and giving realistic guidelines to academic staff at Coventry University”
24. Dahlander, Torbjörn: “Digital distribution of DAISY talking books in Sweden”
25. Gold, Deborah: “Nation-wide study on the needs of people in Canada who are blind or low vision”
26. Schroeder, Paul: “Developing researched-based guidelines for improving access to small-screen visual displays for persons who are visually impaired”
27. Gregg Vanderheiden: “Interface Sockets and Virtual Assistive Technology: Are They Key Elements of the Future?”
28. Nikolic, Tihomir: “The visually handicapped working in the profession of translator”
29. Inde, Krister: “Visual desire and efficiency through Peakabooks and PC games for low vision children”
30. Gomez, Lucia: “Maestro, the first accessible mainstream PDA”
31. Plumpton, Stephen: “Introducing the OS X spoken interface for Apple Macintosh computers”
32. Aitken, Janice: “Making the company intranet accessible: a case study”
33. Watson, Billy: “ ‘If I can’t read it, I can’t learn it’: digital audio in visual impairment education – making the curriculum more accessible”
34. King, Stephen: “A better way to read: developing the UK strategy for transforming the audio reading experience”
35. Petrie, Helen: “Accessibility of museum and gallery Web sites for visually disabled people”
36. Bailey, Ian: “Determining print size and magnification needs for students with visual impairment”
37. Wolffe, Karen: “CareerConnect™ – an interactive Web-based tool for job seekers with visual disabilities”
38. Legge, Gordon E.: “Wayfinding in buildings with vision impairment: research and adaptive technology”
39. Zimmermann, Sally-Anne: “Modified stave notation – encouraging musical independence through accessible, easily produced scores”
40. Gill, John: “Priorities for technological research for blind and partially sighted people”
41. Kusayama, Kozue: “Access to museums for visually challenged people in Japan”
42. Best, Anthony: “Deaf-blind people: they are our responsibility. Recent surveys of the population and services”
43. Corcoran, Christine: “Network 1000: surveying the changing needs and lifestyles of 1000 visually impaired people – indicative results from generative interviews”
44. Ray Kurzweil: “The Future of Blindness and Disabilities in an Age of Accelerating Technology”