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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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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 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. |
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 3, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Target.com Faces Class Action Suit Over Accessibility What steps should e-commerce store owners take to ensure their site's accessibility to the blind? |
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. |
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
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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. |
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. |
D-Lib
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. |
Inc.
February 2007
John Grossmann |
Welcome! No, Not You American business moves fitfully toward website accessibility for the disabled. |
InternetNews
August 15, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Donates Code to Firefox IBM gives the Mozilla Foundation accessibility code to improve feature-rich pages. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
July 22, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Usability and SEO More and more SEOs are becoming usability experts. Here's why. |
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. |
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
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. |
AFP eWire
October 2, 2006 |
Court Case May Require Charity Websites to Meet ADA Standards A lawsuit brought by the National Federation of the Blind against Target Corp. may set a new legal precedent requiring websites to be accessible to the disabled. |
Macworld
August 2003
Lisa Schmeiser |
Lift NN/g Guidelines by design gurus add value to web-site accessibility tool |
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. |
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. |
Fast Company
Luke Dormehl |
Deaf Advocates Want MIT And Harvard To Provide Better Closed-Captioning Services Technology can be a godsend to people with disabilities, allowing them to fully participate in parts to life that would be otherwise impossible. But at what point should it become mandatory? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
Bank Technology News
May 2007
Rebecca Sausner |
Security: When Lock Downs Lock Out The Blind Banks and vendors are working to make online tools secure and usable for the visually impaired. |
Inc.
February 2007
John Grossmann |
Anna Bradley Picks a Fight She was broke, alone, and physically devastated - and then she picked up on a little-remarked federal requirement called Section 508. With that, Anna Bradley had both a calling and a pioneering business. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Kate Plourd |
Prepare to Be More Accommodating Big changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act could heap new costs on corporations starting this fall. |
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
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. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Prachi Patel-Predd |
The Enabler How Rob Sinclair has been spearheading Microsoft's efforts to make computer software and devices more usable for people with physical or learning disabilities. |
BusinessWeek
September 24, 2009 |
More Applications Than First Imagined Companies like Google and Amazon have released products that can aid the disabled, but have also been mainstreamed. |
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 |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2014
Richard Hunt |
Accessibility Litigation Is ignorance really bliss? The number of lawsuits filed against business owners based on violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act and Federal Housing Administration accessibility requirements grows every year. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Closed Captioning Hits Google Video Google puts closed captions on selected videos. Could it help search too? |
D-Lib
April 2001 |
In Brief The eScholarship Initiative... Scholnet and Cyclades: Extending the Role of Digital Libraries... Taking a Common View of Educational Metadata... The Electronic Privacy Information Center... Bobby: CAST's Free Public Service for Web Accessibility... etc. |
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. |
PC World
November 2000 |
Letters to PC World Your take on laptops and flight safety, firewalls, and car wars on the Net... |
Information Today
May 28, 2015 |
Benetech Celebrates Wiley's Alt Text Initiative Wiley developed alternative text guidelines (descriptions that provide contextual meanings to images and illustrations) for inclusion in most of its frontlist books, making content accessible to all readers. |
