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All Access Is your website accessible to consumers with disabilities? If not, you might be missing out on a valuable audience.   |
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September 1, 2000
Judy Heim |
Locking Out the Disabled Office buildings have wheelchair ramps, TV has closed captions, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way. |
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September 2004
Michael Providenti |
Library Web Accessibility at Kentucky's 4-Year Degree Granting Colleges and Universities Based on low levels of compliance with the basic principles of Web accessibility and the potential of legal threats, institutions need to take accessibility issues more seriously. |
Information Today
May 9, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon Finally Begins Work to Make Kindles ADA-Compliant On May 1, 2013, ebook giant Amazon announced new accessibility features for the Kindle reading app, making it easier than ever for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries, read and interact with their books. |
InternetNews
September 27, 2006
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W3C Documents Development For The Disabled The World Wide Web Consortium today published documents to help developers create Web sites that are more easily accessible for people with disabilities. |
Macworld
August 2003
Lisa Schmeiser |
Lift NN/g Guidelines by design gurus add value to web-site accessibility tool |
InternetNews
August 15, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Donates Code to Firefox IBM gives the Mozilla Foundation accessibility code to improve feature-rich pages. |
InternetNews
December 11, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
W3C Upgrades Web Accessibility Standards The World Wide Web Consortium, which works on developing standards for the Web, has updated its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. |
Information Today
August 13, 2007 |
EBSCO Publishing Improves Web Accessibility EBSCO Publishing has teamed with accessibility experts to make it easier to search EBSCOhost using screen readers and keyboard controls. |
InternetNews
January 21, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Magnifies Talking Browser Increasing government regulation and aging Baby Boomers spark Big Blue's continued investment in its Home Page Reader, a browser to address the needs of blind, visually impaired or elderly people using the Internet. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2009
Ron Jones |
Usability and SEM 101, Part 2 More tips on Web usability, SEO, behavioral design, and how Web accessibility factors in. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2007
David Needle |
IBM Makes Software, Web, Accessibility Push Research finds accessibility rarely included in computer science curriculum. IBM announced an initiative to give teachers wider access to learning material about assistive technologies. |
Information Today
December 10, 2009 |
ebrary Adds New Technology for People With Physical Disabilities Online library ebrary says it has added technology that significantly increases accessibility for people with physical disabilities. |
Search Engine Watch
July 22, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Usability and SEO More and more SEOs are becoming usability experts. Here's why. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2010
Kristine Schachinger |
Universal Design: One Site to Rule Them All How semantically correct (X)HTML + CSS + accessibility = universal design. As someone who has been building websites for over 11 years, I can tell you the two areas that are the least understood and the most maligned are compliance and accessibility. |
Search Engine Watch
October 11, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Don't Ignore Accessibility While more search marketers are becoming aware of usability and accessibility concerns, the numbers are still very small. A new lawsuit filed in California has the potential to change that. |
InternetNews
July 8, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? The search leader is not currently user-friendly for the blind. MSN and Yahoo have better solutions, though if a user is both blind and deaf, it poses a problem. |
Search Engine Watch
November 30, 2006
Matt Bailey |
Making Search Accessible to Visually Impaired Users Until recently, the needs of visually impaired users wasn't a top priority for search engines. That's changed, but there are still issues that need to be resolved, according to people with vision challenges. |
InternetNews
January 17, 2008
David Needle |
Microsoft Looks To Extend Accessibility Push The software giant plans to grant royalty-free licenses on certain Microsoft patents related to accessibility. |
Information Today
October 11, 2010
George H. Pike |
President Obama Signs the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act Expanded access to smartphone and digital video programming is the goal of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, recently passed by Congress. |
Inc.
February 2007
John Grossmann |
Welcome! No, Not You American business moves fitfully toward website accessibility for the disabled. |
InternetNews
October 14, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
When Screen Readers Meet Feed Readers RSS aggregators don't play well with screen readers, according to an analysis by the American Federation of the Blind. |
Macworld
June 2003
Neil Jones |
Director MX Multimedia-authoring package combines flexibility and accessibility for users with disabilities |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004 |
Accessible Web Publishing Educators, regardless of Web authoring experience, can create documents that comply with Section 508 and W3C accessibility standards. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Pools Accessibility Tools IBM wants to build a community around tools for those with disabilities or with the physical challenges brought on by age. |
Information Today
February 19, 2007 |
Ex Libris Releases MetaLib Version 4.00 Ex Libris Group announced the general release of MetaLib version 4.00, which provides a new topic clustering navigation tool and a fully accessible user interface that complies with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004
Geoffry Fletcher |
Technology for All Students The White House recently released a report detailing the progress the administration has made in removing barriers to assistive technologies, giving people with disabilities full access to all aspects of American life. Few, if any, of these efforts have made it to the schools yet. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google's Doors Still Shut to Blind An Internet petition is asking Google to provide an accessible alternative to the visual verification scheme that currently locks the blind and visually impaired out of participation in all the company's services. |
Inc.
September 2005
Allen P. Roberts Jr. |
Broader Wheelchair Access Rules Proposed The Justice Department is mulling changes to the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the changes considered could affect every business in America. |
The Motley Fool
October 15, 2011
Alex Planes |
Google's Greatest Weakness: An Insider's Perspective Success needs a platform. A platform is accessibility. A platform is basically a consistent structure that ties together multiple services in a unified way. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Can Google's Guide For The Blind Do More? Can Google help the learning-disabled or the elderly with their searches? Google research scientist TV Raman believes the answer is yes. |
Information Today
November 10, 2015
Nancy K. Herther |
Design Standards Take Federal Websites to New Levels of Usability In September 2015, the government released the U.S. Web Design Standards, which will be used for all official U.S. government websites. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Google Has A $20 Million Plan To Beat Disabilities Around The World The Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities is a program out of the company's Google.org charitable division that will dole out $20 million in grants to nonprofits for ideas that can help address physical impairments among the world's population |
Information Today
September 16, 2010 |
New Web Accessibility Tool Free to Developers FireEyes works well with static sites plus includes features specifically designed to address the needs of dynamically updating content. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Lori Weir |
The Importance of Developing and Investing in Online Course Materials That Enrich the Classroom Experience for Special-Needs Students Students with disabilities may be using assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to access online course materials. When developing course materials, ask yourself how a student with a learning disability might perceive the tasks and information. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2004 |
Accessible Web Publishing The Accessible Web Publishing Wizard creates HTML versions of Microsoft Office documents that are viewable in various Web browsers such as Opera, Mozilla and Internet Explorer. |
Job Journal
October 5, 2008
Newman & Carr |
When Co-workers Have Disabilities All workers bring strengths and weaknesses, but it's always a team effort. |
