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InternetNews
December 11, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
W3C Upgrades Web Accessibility Standards The World Wide Web Consortium, which works on developing standards for the Web, has updated its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.   |
InternetNews
August 15, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Donates Code to Firefox IBM gives the Mozilla Foundation accessibility code to improve feature-rich pages. |
InternetNews
March 22, 2007
David Needle |
IBM Makes Software, Web, Accessibility Push Research finds accessibility rarely included in computer science curriculum. IBM announced an initiative to give teachers wider access to learning material about assistive technologies. |
Entrepreneur
March 2005
Melissa Campanelli |
All Access Is your website accessible to consumers with disabilities? If not, you might be missing out on a valuable audience. |
New Architect
December 2002
Susan Kuchinskas |
Building a Barrier-Free Web Making your site accessible to the disabled is good business. |
InternetNews
January 17, 2008
David Needle |
Microsoft Looks To Extend Accessibility Push The software giant plans to grant royalty-free licenses on certain Microsoft patents related to accessibility. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Judy Heim |
Locking Out the Disabled Office buildings have wheelchair ramps, TV has closed captions, but many Web sites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. Things don't have to be that way. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004 |
Accessible Web Publishing Educators, regardless of Web authoring experience, can create documents that comply with Section 508 and W3C accessibility standards. |
InternetNews
January 21, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Magnifies Talking Browser Increasing government regulation and aging Baby Boomers spark Big Blue's continued investment in its Home Page Reader, a browser to address the needs of blind, visually impaired or elderly people using the Internet. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Jim Wagner |
IBM Pools Accessibility Tools IBM wants to build a community around tools for those with disabilities or with the physical challenges brought on by age. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2004 |
Accessible Web Publishing The Accessible Web Publishing Wizard creates HTML versions of Microsoft Office documents that are viewable in various Web browsers such as Opera, Mozilla and Internet Explorer. |
InternetNews
May 14, 2010 |
W3C Issues XProc XML Pipeline Standard World Wide Web Consortium issues long-awaited XML pipeline standard dubbed XProc to enable interoperability across multiple XML documents. |
Information Today
December 10, 2009 |
ebrary Adds New Technology for People With Physical Disabilities Online library ebrary says it has added technology that significantly increases accessibility for people with physical disabilities. |
Search Engine Watch
October 11, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Don't Ignore Accessibility While more search marketers are becoming aware of usability and accessibility concerns, the numbers are still very small. A new lawsuit filed in California has the potential to change that. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2004
Geoffry Fletcher |
Technology for All Students The White House recently released a report detailing the progress the administration has made in removing barriers to assistive technologies, giving people with disabilities full access to all aspects of American life. Few, if any, of these efforts have made it to the schools yet. |
Information Today
August 13, 2007 |
EBSCO Publishing Improves Web Accessibility EBSCO Publishing has teamed with accessibility experts to make it easier to search EBSCOhost using screen readers and keyboard controls. |
Information Today
May 9, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon Finally Begins Work to Make Kindles ADA-Compliant On May 1, 2013, ebook giant Amazon announced new accessibility features for the Kindle reading app, making it easier than ever for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries, read and interact with their books. |
Information Today
November 3, 2015 |
New W3C Website Offers Resources for Developers The World Wide Web Consortium announced a W3C Developers website designed as a one-stop resource for developers to find what they need for their work. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Prachi Patel-Predd |
The Enabler How Rob Sinclair has been spearheading Microsoft's efforts to make computer software and devices more usable for people with physical or learning disabilities. |
D-Lib
September 2004
Michael Providenti |
Library Web Accessibility at Kentucky's 4-Year Degree Granting Colleges and Universities Based on low levels of compliance with the basic principles of Web accessibility and the potential of legal threats, institutions need to take accessibility issues more seriously. |
Information Today
February 19, 2007 |
Ex Libris Releases MetaLib Version 4.00 Ex Libris Group announced the general release of MetaLib version 4.00, which provides a new topic clustering navigation tool and a fully accessible user interface that complies with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2009
Ron Jones |
Usability and SEM 101, Part 2 More tips on Web usability, SEO, behavioral design, and how Web accessibility factors in. |
Search Engine Watch
July 22, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Usability and SEO More and more SEOs are becoming usability experts. Here's why. |
Information Today
January 29, 2015 |
W3C Backs Internet of Things Market With New Standards Initiative The World Wide Web Consortium launched a Web of Things initiative to develop web standards that will enable open markets of applications and services that are based on the Internet of Things and the web of data. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 9, 2009
Scott Aronowitz |
Federal Grant Aims To Make Open Content Texts More Accessible With the help of a $100,000 supplemental grant from the United States Department of Education Office of Special Education, Bookshare will begin to make open content textbooks accessible to readers with print disabilities. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Google Has A $20 Million Plan To Beat Disabilities Around The World The Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities is a program out of the company's Google.org charitable division that will dole out $20 million in grants to nonprofits for ideas that can help address physical impairments among the world's population |
InternetNews
February 15, 2005
Clint Boulton |
W3C to Break Web Language Barriers? The World Wide Web Consortium sinks its teeth into the dilemma of rendering the world's languages online. |
Information Today
July 3, 2008 |
Ex Libris Introduces Voyager 7.0 and EL Commons Ex Libris Group announced the general release of version 7.0 of the Company's Voyager integrated library system. |
InternetNews
October 26, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
W3C Looks to GRDDL For Semantic Web Sense With the help of the in-development W3C GRDDL specification, the Semantic Web takes a step closer to becoming an implementable reality. |
InternetNews
July 8, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? The search leader is not currently user-friendly for the blind. MSN and Yahoo have better solutions, though if a user is both blind and deaf, it poses a problem. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2003
White et al. |
Accessible Education Through Assistive Technology The implementation of assistive technology is dependent on the knowledge, skill and inventiveness of the teachers who use what they have learned from higher education, their teaching experiences, and their attendance at continuing education programs and in-service classes. |
InternetNews
December 27, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Startups Board the AJAX Bandwagon New companies are touting AJAX, thanks to forays from Microsoft and Google. |
Search Engine Watch
November 30, 2006
Matt Bailey |
Making Search Accessible to Visually Impaired Users Until recently, the needs of visually impaired users wasn't a top priority for search engines. That's changed, but there are still issues that need to be resolved, according to people with vision challenges. |
Information Today
September 17, 2013 |
W3C Launches Website Validation Service The World Wide Web Consortium's Validator Suite ended its beta phase and is now ready for action. This premium service checks websites' public pages against W3C standards to ensure website quality. |
InternetNews
September 14, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Berners-Lee Calls For More Voice Apps World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee throws out a challenge to developers in the voice recognition space and points out what really challenges CIOs. |
Entrepreneur
January 2010
Mikal E. Belicove |
Go Right to the Source (Code) Ensure a bug-free website by following the best practices of programming and design set by W3C. |
InternetNews
September 2, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Massachusetts Eyes Open Office Standards The state is considering a move from Microsoft to open standards office software. The goal is to make sure state documents and government records are accessible. |
Inc.
September 2005
Allen P. Roberts Jr. |
Broader Wheelchair Access Rules Proposed The Justice Department is mulling changes to the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the changes considered could affect every business in America. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Lori Weir |
The Importance of Developing and Investing in Online Course Materials That Enrich the Classroom Experience for Special-Needs Students Students with disabilities may be using assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to access online course materials. When developing course materials, ask yourself how a student with a learning disability might perceive the tasks and information. |
Information Today
January 8, 2015 |
W3C and OGC Advance Spatial Data on the Web The World Wide Web Consortium partnered with the Open Geospatial Consortium) to improve the interoperability and integration of spatial data on the web. |
InternetNews
December 16, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
W3C Delivers Web Architecture Overview To aid developers, the Web standards body puts best practices in a single, coherent document. |
Information Today
April 2, 2015 |
W3C Will Provide MOOCs via edX The World Wide Web Consortium teamed up with edX to offer W3Cx, a series of massive open online courses on core web technologies. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Next Leg For W3C, Semantic Web Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee and the W3C formed the Rule Interchange Format working group to facilitate heterogeneous data exchange across the Web. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2004
Clint Boulton |
W3C Eyes Mobile Web Initiative The World Wide Web Consortium will examine how engineers can improve the experience for users accessing the Web through a smartphone or PDA. |
Inc.
February 2007
John Grossmann |
Welcome! No, Not You American business moves fitfully toward website accessibility for the disabled. |
Information Today
May 24, 2010 |
Cambridge University Press Grants Digital Rights to Bookshare for Accessible Formats Conversion Cambridge University Press has entered into a license agreement with Bookshare, the Calif.-based nonprofit organization that provides books in accessible formats for people with qualified print disabilities |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2006 |
Aequus Technologies Corporation's AspireReader 4.0 The software contains accessibility tools for improving learning outcomes of struggling students. |
InternetNews
June 14, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Spry: Ajax Without JavaScript Headaches Adobe's Spry technology aims to hide JavaScript complexity from non-developers. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
John Clyman |
Better Web-App Interfaces with AJAX A new approach to building Web applications promises a richer experience for users. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 1, 2010
Sara Stroud |
Merging IT With AT Assistive tech joins the mainstream When Apple's iPad hit shelves earlier this year, educators and educational software developers were already thinking about what it could mean for students with learning and communication impairments. |
