IBM beats Microsoft over the head with its own code
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| Accessibility technology now headed for open-source applications was derived
| from work done by Microsoft.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/091007-ibm-accessibility.html?fsrc=rss-linux-applications
Related:
Accessibility building momentum
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| Recently, I've seen encouraging signs that the ICDL will be fully
| supportive of people who want to be "computer literate" with free
| software. Wouldn't it be something if that privilege were extended
| to EVERY user, regardless of financial circumstance, language, or
| disability?
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http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/93
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
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
Reviewing the "Accessibility of Ecma Office Open XML File Formats"
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| When and how will the accessibility failings cited in the paper be fixed? ...
| For example, the white paper notes that MSOXML fails to support WCAG 1.0
| checkpoints 4.2, 5.2, 9.4, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, and 12.4. The white paper
| further notes that MSOXML only partially supports checkpoints WCAG 1.0
| checkpoints 6.4, 8.1, 9.1, and 11.1. Some of these are particularly important
| for blind users needing to understand the context of table cells and for good
| Braille and DAISY transcription of tables - issues we found in ODF v1.0 and
| fixed in ODF v1.1. Will these things get fixed in the future? If so, when? By
| whom? With what outside review (if any)? To appear in what update of the
| specification?
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http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/reviewing_the_a_href_http
Talking with Microsoft's Gray Knowlton about MSOXML accessibility
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| Gray, at the start of your blog comment you say "I’m not sure that the “who
| did this?” question matters as much as your post seems to indicate", and you
| spend several paragraphs describing your (non-accessibility) background at
| Microsoft and Adobe.
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http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/talking_with_microsoft_s_gray
Free Operating System For Blind: Adriane Knoppix
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| Klaus and Adriane Knopper are working on an operating system for the
| blind, and as compared to other solutions available, this one is
| absolutely free!
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=17094
Happy (belated) birthday: GNOME accessibility turns 6 years old
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| Ubuntu version 6.10 is shipping, with Orca available and optionally
| talking at boot up from the LiveCD, and talking and Brailling through
| the install (making this the first evern graphical desktop that you
| can install using Braille, and the second one that you can install
| using speech)
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http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/happy_%28belated%29_birthday%3A_gnome_accessibility
http://tinyurl.com/yammg9
Firefox: An open source accessibility success story
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| Mozilla and Firefox are gradually becoming a core part of the future
| of web accessibility, where the open source license is a huge
| advantage. The Firefox accessibility effort has now truly achieved
| ignition, not only with base accessibility support in Firefox, but
| also by leading the future of accessibility for dynamic web applications.
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http://www-306.ibm.com/able/resources/firefox.html
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