IBM helps blind 'see' web video
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| Technology giant, IBM, is soon to launch a multimedia browser to make
| audio and video content accessible to people with vision impairments.
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| The company plans to "open source" its new accessibility software in
| order to make it available to the largest possible number of people.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6507189.stm
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IBM to Help Colleges Make Software More Accessible for Disabled and Aged
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| The students wrote computer code that checks word processing documents
| that adhere to the OpenDocument Format (ODF), to determine whether they
| are accessible. To propagate the technology, the students contributed
| their code to the open source community (sourceforge.org).
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070323/0230042.html
The Free Standards Group to Standardize New Accessibility Software Interfaces
Donated by IBM
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| The Free Standards Group has said that it will be developing and
| maintaining software interfaces donated by IBM as an open standard,
| available for all to use. The standardized interfaces, IAccessible2,
| make it far easier for application developers to provide accessible
| applications to computer users with disabilities, regardless of their
| OS platform. IAccessible2 will become a crucial part of the FSG
| Accessibility Workgroup and is available immediately.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Application/The_Free_Standards_Group_to_Standardize_New_Accessibility_Software_Interfaces_Donated_by_IBM
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