It turns out that the Blogsome developers are not enlightened regarding accessibility, and there is no way to remove the requirement for visual CAPTCHAs. In all likelihood I’ll have to be moving my blog soon — before it really started.

Well, I guess that’s life.

Yes, I’m finally blogging. Quick intro: my name is Aaron Leventhal and I work at IBM as a web accessibility architect. Since 2000 I’ve worked on accessibility in Mozilla-based browsers — for the first three years that actually meant working on Netscape, and now it’s Firefox. That’s really a story in and of itself.

These days I’m helping to make Web 2.0 accessibility possible, and enjoying watching the open source accessibility community grow. And way back in the last century I actually worked on Braille publishing software. Yep, I’m one of those "accessibility experts" you’ve heard about, but don’t hide! I’m not a curmudgeon about these things. For me it’s just about helping people make it all work.

I will dicuss open source & web accessibility here, with a special emphasis on Web 2.0 and AJAX. Check back soon!