Alt Text: Yahoo Mail By Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility You may have heard that we just launched our new Yahoo Mail desktop experience that makes it even easier to access and organize all of the important information in your Inbox. The new version of desktop Mail has been completely redesigned from the ground up, sits on our latest tech stack, and is fast, reliable, and intuitive to use. It however also takes a huge leap forward for accessibility, with many user interfac...| Yahoo Accessibility
By Mike Shebanek, Senior Director, Accessibility Engaging users, actively observing, and then incorporating feedback into product design is central to Yahoo’s product development work. In addition to routinely performing small group or one-on-one user research that includes people with disabilities, a method of engaging users and gathering feedback unique to the Yahoo User Experience Research and Accessibility (UXRA) team is something we call User Nights. Image caption: Dozens of Yahoo engi...| Yahoo Accessibility
Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility I’m very pleased to share that last night, Teach Access, an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in the curricula of computer scientists, designers and researchers in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, was awarded an Honorable Mention Chairman’s Award for Advancement in Accessibility (Chairman’s AAA) by the Federal Communications Commission. The Chairman’s AAA is an FCC program recog...| Yahoo Accessibility
Image: Teach Access logo Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility I’m very excited to share that Teach Access, an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in the curricula of computer scientists, designers and researchers in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, has won the Knowbility, Inc. award for Educational Achievement! Yahoo is a founding member of the project. Teach Access was created by a coalition of tech companies, universities a...| Yahoo Accessibility
Frank Bentley / Sr. Principal Researcher The Yahoo UX Research and Accessibility (UXRA) team is heading to the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (otherwise known as CHI 2017) in Denver! This year we have a series of great talks from our researchers and interns about the research we have conducted across consumer and advertising products. If you’ll be at CHI, you can find the room numbers for talks listed below. We’re also hiring, so stop by our booth at the ...| Yahoo Accessibility
By Mike Shebanek, Senior Director, Accessibility Yahoo’s Accessibility Lab is well known for creating hands-on interactions for software developers to experience how people with disabilities successfully use technology—when it’s well designed of course! One of the experiences makes use of goggles with filtered lenses that simulate different types of vision loss, such as glaucoma and cataracts. Unfortunately, the lab is limited in the number of goggles we have available, and visitors ...| Yahoo Accessibility
By Darren Burton, Yahoo Accessibility Specialist The men’s college basketball tournament, aka The Big Dance, is a truly massive event across America. 68 of the top colleges in the nation take part, and offices and sports bars everywhere are abuzz with excitement over their brackets. I’ve been filling out mine since I was a college student back in the 1980’s, and that didn’t stop after I lost my sight in the 1990’s. I always played, but it just wasn’t the same when a friend or co...| Yahoo Accessibility
By Mike Shebanek, Senior Director of Accessibility Starting today, you’ll notice some significant changes to our blog, both in design and in content, that better reflect who we are and what we do. I’d like to to tell you why we’re making these changes and what you can look forward to as you follow our blog. One of the things that makes Yahoo’s approach to accessibility unique is that its Accessibility Team and its User Experience Research Team are integrated. That may sound like an ob...| Yahoo Accessibility
By Gary Moulton, Accessibility Program Manager Last week we introduced a new Yahoo app for Android and iOS that re-imagines the Q&A experience for mobile users. Say hello to Yahoo Answers Now. Using Yahoo Answers Now with assistive technology is as simple as plugging in your bluetooth keyboard, adjusting your smartphone’s text size or turning on your built in screen reader, such as to TalkBack or VoiceOver. And, of course, “looking” for the answer to a question that will make your day. ...| Yahoo Accessibility