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Entrepreneur
March 2005
Melissa Campanelli |
All Access Is your website accessible to consumers with disabilities? If not, you might be missing out on a valuable audience.   |
PC World
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 27, 2006
Clint Boulton |
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. |
New Architect
December 2002
Susan Kuchinskas |
Building a Barrier-Free Web Making your site accessible to the disabled is good business. |
Inc.
February 2007
John Grossmann |
Welcome! No, Not You American business moves fitfully toward website accessibility for the disabled. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Eliza Strickland |
Dream Jobs 2012: Web Guru for the Blind IBM researcher Chieko Asakawa can't see your website, but she can make it better |
Search Engine Watch
May 19, 2005
Matt Bailey |
Don't Disable Your Site for Handicapped Users Are you designing web sites that are accessible to disabled users? If not, you're overlooking a powerful market segment of millions of searchers and potential buyers -- including 1.3 million legally blind and 10 million visually impaired Americans. |
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
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 15, 2004
Jim Wagner |
IBM Tool Has An Eye For The Blind A new alphaWorks application shows Web designers what their site looks like through the eyes of someone with a visual impairment. |
InternetNews
October 24, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Adobe Flips For New Programming Environment Adobe Systems has introduced a new platform that lets programmers develop rich Internet applications that users can interact with on their desktops. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
NIST Demonstrates New Reading Device for the Visually Impaired The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the release of a new Braille reader that may soon bring the benefits of electronic books to the visually impaired... |
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. |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Microsoft Pushes Products and Alliances in E-Book Market Microsoft Corp. has announced that it has made the Windows version of Microsoft Reader for desktop PCs and laptop computers available as a free download. In addition, major publishers are making best-selling titles available in Microsoft Reader format... |
Information Today
January 25, 2010
Nancy Herther |
The DOJ and ADA Mandate Ebook Readers Be Accessible to All Ebook reader makers received a major reality check earlier this month when, after investigating charges of Americans with Disabilities Act violations, the U.S. Department of Justice announced settlements with four major universities that had been part of the Kindle DX project |
InternetNews
March 13, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Adobe: 'Open' But Not Always Open Source Adobe says it sees openness as a way to grow interest. But not every one of its products is ready for open source. |
InternetNews
August 15, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Donates Code to Firefox IBM gives the Mozilla Foundation accessibility code to improve feature-rich pages. |
InternetNews
January 3, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Exploit Surfaces in Web Browser PDF Plug-Ins Several security firms have found a vulnerability in the Adobe Reader that is surprisingly easy to initiate and also very dangerous. |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2009
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Intel Reader: As Big a Boon as Braille? Intel's device for the blind or visually impaired combines a digital camera, OCR, and speech synthesis, with impressive results. |
InternetNews
April 19, 2005
Michael Singer |
Adobe, Macromedia Deeper than PDF/Flash More synergy between the file formats is just the tip of the iceberg, executives say of the megamerger. |
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. |
PC Magazine
June 9, 2010
Michael Muchmore |
Apple Safari 5 Review & Rating Yet another browser touted as being the fastest on earth has just crossed our transom. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2009 |
Intel Unveils Reader for the Visually Impaired Rather than compete with Kindle, Intel's new device is for those with reading challenges who need to read content not available as an e-Book. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 18, 2005 |
Int'l Figures of the Week The S&P's Global 1200 fell... Positive economic data pushed the S&P 500 higher... European equities were mixed... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
January 10, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Speeding Up Acrobat Reader If you dread opening PDF files found in search results because of Acrobat Reader's painfully sluggish startup time, take heart: A nifty free utility tweaks Acrobat to load in a flash. |
BusinessWeek
February 13, 2006
Sarah Lacy |
A Flashy New Adobe In Adobe's merger with Macromedia, the aim was to import its DNA as well as its product. |
Information Today
April 25, 2005
Robin Peek |
Adobe to Acquire Macromedia Speculation about the future plans of Adobe Systems once it acquires Macromedia. |
PC Magazine
March 22, 2005 |
The Lookout: Acrobat Bugs Adobe Systems Inc. has warned of two serious security flaws affecting Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix versions of its Acrobat software. |
InternetNews
March 4, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Buffer Overflow Detected in Adobe Reader Security researchers have issued warnings for a 'high risk' vulnerability in some versions of the popular Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
Fast Company
February 2011
Stephanie Schomer |
Deb Citrin of Philips Home Healthcare Weaves a Boomer Safety Net Deb Citrin is rethinking how to market products for the elderly - by targeting their aging children. |
Macworld
July 2002
Martin Gittens |
Popular Web-Animation and Interactivity Program Is Even More Powerful Flash MX offers an improved interface, new video support, OS X compatibility, and a host of powerful scripting tools that, when used in conjunction with the new Flash Player 6, produce leaner -- and significantly meaner -- Web sites. |
Macworld
December 2000
Jim Heid |
Flash 5 Web Animation and Authoring Tool Matures but Still Lacks Accessibility... |
PC Magazine
October 20, 2006 |
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Beta Acrobat still rules the portable-document world, with more PDF features than ever. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 1, 2010
Sara Stroud |
Merging IT With AT Assistive tech joins the mainstream When Apple's iPad hit shelves earlier this year, educators and educational software developers were already thinking about what it could mean for students with learning and communication impairments. |
InternetNews
August 6, 2010 |
Adobe Hurries Patch for PDF Security Flaw The vulnerability in Adobe Reader could give hackers control of a user's computer. |
InternetNews
June 9, 2010 |
Adobe Readies Major Flash Fix Adobe Systems says it will have a fix to a major exploit in its popular Flash Player later this week and fixes for Reader and Acrobat by the end of the month. |
InternetNews
May 17, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Not Quite a Drive-Thru, But Apps Built to Go A new offering currently being tested by IBM will make it possible for anyone with or without development skills to build basic applications online, with the help of an AJAX-driven browser interface. |
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. |
PC Magazine
October 19, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Speed Loading of PDF Files Our readers frequently ask why Adobe Reader 6 is so slow to load when they open a PDF file. |
Information Today
November 1, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
HTML5-Powered E-Readers for the Browser A new HTML5 reader, powered by SkyShelf from LibreDigital, allows customers to read books in the browser on their laptops, tablets and many smartphones. |
PC Magazine
August 1, 2011
Peter Pachal |
Does Adobe Edge Signal the End of Flash? Adobe Edge is a new development tool for HTML5, an open format that's slowly replacing Adobe's own Flash. Why would the company cannibalize itself in this way? |
PC Magazine
August 2, 2006 |
Speak To Me The National Federation for the Blind (NFB) and inventor/author Ray Kurzweil have announced a new reading tool for the Blind. |
PC World
August 2001
Melissa J. Perenson |
Display PDF Graphics on Your PDA Acrobat Reader for Palm OS reproduces graphics in single-column form -- and it's free... |
