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07/20/06
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Google Enhances Search for Visually Impaired
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Erika Morphy
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Articles and White Papers
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| Google has launched a new service for the visually and learning impaired designed to make search easier by ranking search results according to how clean, or easy-to-read the Web pages are. Called Accessible Search, Google's latest tweak to its search engine comes out of Google Labs.
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06/09/06
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Feature: Five assistive Technologies for the Web
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Léonie Watson
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Articles and White Papers
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| Léonie Watson of Nomensa introduces some popular assistive technologies for the Web: head and mouth wands, speech enabled websites, screen magnifiers, voice recognition software and the browser; and gives a brief summary of the design issues each brings with it.
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12/19/05
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Feature: Improving Usability for Screen Reader Users
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Trenton Moss
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Articles and White Papers
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| Trenton Moss of Webcredible looks at ways of improving usability and accessibility for screen reader users and gives this list.
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11/21/05
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Accessibility Is Not Enough
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Jakob Nielsen
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Articles and White Papers
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| A strict focus on accessibility as a scorecard item doesn't help users with disabilities. To help these users accomplish critical tasks, you must adopt a usability perspective.
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10/05/05
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Devices help the blind cross tech divide
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Michael Singer
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Articles and White Papers
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| Specially designed gadgets are helping people with visual and other physical limitations stay connected.
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07/04/05
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Screen Readers and CSS Layout
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Access Matters
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Articles and White Papers
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| Screen readers are mostly mystical devices for almost all of us. Few of us actually own them. They’re incredibly expensive. Fewer yet know how to use them well, what their capabilities are, or how they actually work.
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04/20/05
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VoiceOver OS X screenreader component
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Apple
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Steps and Presentations
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| Apple published new details of VoiceOver, the built-in screenreader component of OS X 10.4 which will be released at the end of this month. The video demonstration is particularly impressive.
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04/05/05
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Visually impaired see the future
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Geoff Adams-Spink
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Articles and White Papers
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| Some of the latest assistive technology for visually impaired people is on show at Vision 2005 - an international conference on all aspects of sight loss being held in London this week.
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03/16/05
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IBM's Mouse Adapter For People With Hand Tremors
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WebProNews
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Articles and White Papers
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| IBM has invented a mouse adapter that lets people who suffer from hand tremors eliminate excessive cursor movement.
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03/15/05
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Shaky hands? Mouse adapter promises relief
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Peter Judge
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Articles and White Papers
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| A small British company is selling a mouse adapter, developed by IBM, that compensates for trembling hands and could help 3 million people in the United Kingdom and many more worldwide.
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11/30/03
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PC eye-control for severely disabled
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Geoff Adams-Spink
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Articles and White Papers
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| Award-winning Spanish technology that lets severely disabled people control a computer using eye movement could soon be available in the UK.
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10/07/03
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Blind 'see with sound'
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Lakshmi Sandhana
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Articles and White Papers
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| People who are blind will now be able to see using a system called VOICE which translates images into soundscapes.
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06/09/03
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Accessible gaming
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Dr Sile O'Modhrain
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Articles and White Papers
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| Many disabled people first get their clutches on decent accessible computers at work; access equipment and software can be prohibitively expensive to buy for home and leisure purposes.
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02/17/03
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Internet Accessibility
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Brian Globerman
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Articles and White Papers
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02/14/03
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Resource Guide for People With Learning Impairments
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Microsoft
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Articles and White Papers
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02/04/03
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Macromedia Accessibility Project (MAP)
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Stella Perez
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Articles and White Papers
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01/24/03
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Resource Guide for People with Hearing Impairments
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Microsoft
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Articles and White Papers
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01/16/03
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Resource Guide for People with Visual Impairments
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Microsoft Accessibility Technology for Everyone
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Articles and White Papers
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12/31/02
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Screen Reader Simulation
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WebAIM
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Steps and Presentations
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12/31/02
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Navigating the Internet with a Screen Reader
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Social Security Administration
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Steps and Presentations
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09/23/02
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New software helps in building of accessible Web sites
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Dennis Sellers
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Articles and White Papers
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12/31/69
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Visual Impairment Simulator for Windows
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Downloadable File
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| VIS is a program that simulates what it is like to use Microsoft Windows with a visual impairment. You start VIS running, and then use Microsoft Windows normally while VIS applies a visual impairment to your screen.
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