Internet accessibility

Also just found this course at the UK Open University: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=1779
Why is the way something looks important? Text, colour, images, moving images and sound all interact to produce a user friendly environment within a user interface. This unit will help you understand the effect each software component has on the user and explain how a [...]

Just found this list of free Open University courses http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2057.
Technology is opening doors for those with disabilities. Being blind or deaf is now far less of a barrier than it was fifty years ago. This unit assesses various disabilities and describes how they might affect a person’s use of interactive devices. You will then look [...]

One thing that has always concerned me is the way that most web developers I know in the UK are just not interested in Accessibility and the support, information and encouragement is not available.
There appear to be GREAT conferences and expos in the USA with some really notable speakers.  Some of the competitions like those [...]

OK thnx Chris Evans (BBC Radio2) for name, but on Twitter we have followfriday – suggest follow:
What if you didn’t know who to follow on Twitter (Twitter reviews)? Would you randomly start following people? Would you follow people you see mentioned by those you already follow? Most likely you would ask your friends for recommendations [...]

For the third-largest minority group in the United States — more than 40 million people — the vast majority of Websites are partially or completely inaccessible.