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Zoo Brings Curricula to Students With Disabilities Using Tablet PCs
White Papers Over one thousand students with disabilities often have difficulty participating in programs that involve animal observations and data collection on paper. The solution employs built-in accessibility features of Windows XP to enable students who...
[August 30, 2007, 1:00]
IP Network Helps Regional Center of the East Bay Serve Californians With Disabilities
White Papers Outfitting the new locations for business presented an opportunity to centralize database functionality and improve electronic record-keeping, making it easier for staff to achieve RCEB's mission of coordinating services and supports for people...
[September 12, 2008, 1:01]
About Accessibility for People With Disabilities
White Papers Microsoft is committed to making products that are accessible and usable by all people, including those with disabilities. Many accessibility features are built right into Microsoft Word. These features are available to everyone, without the need...
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
Macromedia to help open Web to all
News Macromedia plans to launch a new product that helps designers and developers create Web content accessible to everyone -- particularly those with disabilities. We hope that the work that Macromedia has done will (help) people with disabilities in...
[December 3, 2001, 9:59]
Wanted: Web geeks with social consciences
News Organisers of a unique technology rally are looking for computer programmers and designers to build Web sites useful to people with disabilities. About a dozen 10-member teams will be asked to build sophisticated Web sites that are easy for people...
[August 13, 2002, 8:50]
Disabled jobseeker initiative gets European recognition
News Jobability.com, the Web site aimed at helping people with disabilities find jobs, has received two European accolades. It is aimed at helping people with disabilities get training and into work. After obtaining skills through the Workability scheme...
[November 21, 2002, 14:40]
Most UK Web sites break accessibility laws
News Most UK businesses are failing to meet the government legislation designed to make Web sites accessible to people with disabilities, according to new research. Under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, UK organisations are required to take...
[March 23, 2004, 12:25]
Assistive Technology Makes Lifetime of Difference to UnumProvident Medical Director
White Papers In a company dedicated to helping people with disabilities, they demonstrate that having a physical disability doesn't need to be an impediment to succeeding in a high-level job. The company deployed Microsoft Windows which provide the information...
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
Xerox copier can 'talk' to the blind
News Xerox launched digital copier software for the visually impaired and the blind on Thursday, a move that expands the company's offerings to people with disabilities and increases its ability to sell into government agencies.
[March 21, 2003, 15:32]
Government sites continue to flout standards
News Government agencies are continuing to flout the government's own guidelines for interoperability, and failing to comply with the most basic standards designed to make Web sites accessible to people with disabilities, according to recent testing.
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
Blind surfers win concessions from travel sites
News The settlement, announced on Friday, is designed to bring the sites into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires that private Web sites be accessible to blind and visually impaired Internet users, according to Spitzer.
[August 23, 2004, 8:25]
Massachusetts ODF plan will use Office plug-in
News As expected, Louis Gutierrez, chief information officer of Massachusetts' Information Technology Division, on Wednesday sent a letter, seen by ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com, to advocates of people with disabilities.
[August 25, 2006, 17:35]
Socitm calls on councils for web-accessibility checks
News Socitm research claims that only eight percent of local government websites are fully accessible to people with disabilities, adding that many are inaccessible, obscuring potentially useful information.
[April 21, 2008, 9:02]
Anti-spam tricks block the blind
News But it is also increasingly hindering the progress of Web surfers with visual disabilities -- raising the ire of advocates for the blind, spurring plans for alternatives from a key Web standards group, and eliciting warnings from legal experts who...
[July 2, 2003, 13:28]
IBM releases source code of speech software
News He said that increasing the number of speech-enabled applications will not just make it easier for people with disabilities to use a computer, but could eventually revolutionise the way we interact with computers.
[September 27, 2004, 13:08]
Spinning an accessible Web
News A partial list of audience disabilities that Web designers should consider includes: blindness; low vision; colour blindness; physical and motor disorders; cognitive, neurological and learning disorders; and epileptic seizure disorders (triggered...
[January 14, 2004, 14:15]
Open-source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind
News When you don't see print, you lose more than the ability to read words.you lose the ability to see the page, jump around in the text and be drawn to bolded or italicised information," said Jim Marks, director of services for students with...
[May 14, 2008, 8:58]
Massachusetts officials clash over move to OpenDocument
News He also contended that OpenDocument does not sufficiently address the needs of people with disabilities. Quinn said OpenDocument-based products do need to be improved to address people with disabilities.
[November 2, 2005, 9:25]
Massachusetts may embrace Microsoft Office
News But those agencies will be keeping the current application suite — Microsoft Office — on their 50,000 desktops because it's the only product that addresses the needs of people with disabilities, she said.
[July 3, 2007, 8:48]
Google Books deal: Amazon calls in the lawyers
News Sony, the American Association for People with Disabilities, the European Commission and several others have filed briefs of support with the court. Updated 2:52pm PDT (10:52pm BST): Google plans to hold a press conference on Thursday morning with...
[September 3, 2009, 9:24]
