Robert Sutor's Library tagged accessibility →  View Popular, Search in Google

"The IBM-led OpenAjax Alliance has announced new tooling technologies aimed at helping the disabled navigate Web 2.0 sites, a real breakthrough for accessibility.

Ajax may seem like great stuff to the sighted, but how is a blind person to understand what is happening as they mouse over a word cloud? This has been a big problem for many years."

open-ajax accessibility

"IBM and groups like the OpenAjax Alliance are launching a few initiatives to make the Internet more accessible to folks with mobility or sensory disabilities.

The overarching theme here is that the Internet needs voice Web development and other interfaces to address 750 million people around the world with disabilities and another 900 million illiterate folks. The elderly as well as people with disabilities have largely had to sit out the Web 2.0 advances such as social networking."

ibm accessibility Open Source

"IBM is embarking on a research project to design mobile gadgets that are easier to use for people who have disabilities or aren't fully literate."

ibm mobile accessibility

"IBM has launched a new initiative that it hopes will vastly improve the web browsing experience for visually impaired users. The Social Accessibility Project is a service that aims to make web pages more accessible for screen readers without altering the code of the page, the software for which is available in beta form today through IBM's AlphaWorks. If enough people participate in the project, then IBM's software could become integral to blind users' everyday surfing."

OB IBM accessibility