http://www.netsquared.org/tags/easyjournal share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/sharron-rush/easyjournal-makes-blogging-accessible <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We saw a bunch of cool new tools at the conference.&nbsp; It seemed like blogging was a very big deal for attendees thinking in new ways about communicating their mission-based work.&nbsp; I was inspired to become hyper-alert to identifying accessible, equivalent tools and communication methods.&nbsp; In that spirit, I offer <a href="http://www.easyjournal.com/" target="_blank">EasyJournal </a>as a tool that meets accessibility standards, but more importantly that opens up the blogging experience for millions.&nbsp; The most well-known blogging tools may create accessible pages - usually mostly text, after all. The problem comes when someone - the student at the school for the blind, perhaps or the personnel administrator with quadriplegia - who can&#39;t use a mouse tries to post a blog.&nbsp; It doesn&rsquo;t work well.&nbsp; It is difficult, perhaps impossible for the person with a disability to have the blogging experience using well-known tools because thecontent creation interface is not accessible. &nbsp;The interface for EasyJournal was designed with accessibility in mind, however and you might consider trying it.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s free, it&rsquo;s accessible, and it requires no additional software. </p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/sharron-rush/easyjournal-makes-blogging-accessible">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/sharron-rush/easyjournal-makes-blogging-accessible#comments accessibility accessible blog Blogging disability EasyJournal Citizen Journalism Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:51:28 -0400 Sharron Rush 1834 at http://www.netsquared.org