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Tag Archives: Accessibility
Accessibility, OpenOffice.org, ODF
Rich Schwerdtfeger has a discussion of some of IBM’s recent accessibility work involving Lotus Notes 8, mentions that IBM will be donating some accessibility code to OpenOffice.org, and clears up some misconceptions about the IAccessible2 API over in his IBM … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Open Source, Standards
Tagged Accessibility, ODF, OpenOffice.org
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links for 2007-05-07
Making ‘Minority Report’ computer navigation a reality | CNET News.com The image of Cruise manipulating windows in 3D left a lasting impression on me as well. (tags: display movies) James Governor’s Monkchips » WordPress is The Most Innovative Open Source … Continue reading
IBM, colleges, accessibility
See the IBM press release “IBM to Help Colleges Make Software More Accessible for Disabled and Aged”: NORTHRIDGE, CA–(MARKET WIRE)–Mar 23, 2007 — IBM (NYSE:IBM – News) today announced that it will work with academia to build a worldwide repository … Continue reading
PDF and accessibility
About a month ago, a government legislator asked me about PDF and accessibility. I told him what I knew about tagging these files with structural information, made a mental note to do a blog entry about it, and then promptly … Continue reading
Bloor on IAccessible2, ODF
Peter Abrahams, Practice Leader at Bloor Research, has a very nice writeup of the IAccessible2 interfaces announced yesterday called “IAccessible2 Open Standard for Assistive Technology”. He say, in part: Pressure has been building from disabled users and from organisations, such … Continue reading
ODF and accessibility: The way forward
Liz Montalbano has an article over at InfoWorld about our Project Missouri, “IBM project aims to help blind use ODF applications.” On Wednesday, IBM said it has helped solve that problem by developing technology that will allow applications based on … Continue reading
links for 2006-09-28
I’ve been somewhat remiss lately in adding some links, so this should bring me up to date. Open Source InfoWorld | The Philippines goes open source “Infotech is reporting that the Department of Social Welfare and Development has officially moved … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Document Formats, Music, News, Open Source, Politics / Government
Tagged Accessibility, Bob Dylan, DRM, Humor, Indonesia, Microsoft, Phillipines, W3C
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links for 2006-09-08
Open Source Application Development Trends – Eclipse Popularity Rises: Heterogeneity on the Desktop is Back “The Eclipse Foundation kicks off its EclipseWorld Enterprise Developer Conference in Boston this week with some hot survey numbers” (tags: opensource eclipse) Richard Stallman on … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged Accessibility, conference, Eclipse, Linux, Mint, ODF
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links for 2006-08-29
Kerala logs Microsoft out “Children in 12,500 high schools in the state, India’s most literate, will not be taught Windows. Instead, instructors are lining up Linux for them.” (tags: education linux opensource microsoft) Computer Science Majors Get Tools To Build … Continue reading
Posted in Education, News, Open Source
Tagged Accessibility, India, Linux, Microsoft, ODF
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Dr Dobbs article – “Programming Contests: Here’s A Good One”
There’s a nice writeup of our ODF/Accessibility contest over in Dr. Dobbs. See “Programming Contests: Here’s A Good One.”
links for 2006-08-24
Mass. to use Microsoft Office in ODF plan | CNET News.com “Massachusetts will begin using OpenDocument as the default document format later this year as planned, but it will be sticking with Microsoft Office in the near term, the state’s … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Software
Tagged Accessibility, Massachusetts, Microsoft, ODF
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IBM Accessibility ODF Coding Challenge 2006
Today we’re officially announcing the IBM Accessibility ODF Coding Challenge 2006, a contest for university students that combines open standards, open source, and accessibility. Our goal is to train hundreds if not thousands of college software engineering students to create … Continue reading
links for 2006-07-21
Accessibility Google Lanches Accessible Search “Accessible Search looks at the page’s HTML, and favors pages that are more easily understood when images are turned off, as well as those that are most accessible through keyboard navigation.” (tags: google accessibility) Open … Continue reading
aDesigner from IBM alphaWorks
When I was in Japan a couple of weeks ago I got a great demonstration of some of the current and upcoming accessibility technologies coming out of the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. One of these is aDesigner, “a disability simulator … Continue reading
KOffice 1.5, ODF, and accessibility support
DesktopLinux.com has more on the release of KOffice 1.5 and its default support for OpenDocumentFormat (ODF). The article points out the improvements made around accessibility: The 1.5 version of KOffice has new support for enhanced accessibility through the means of … Continue reading
GNOME Linux Screen Reader
Here is another pointer regarding accessibility, this time from IBM alphaWorks: “Linux Screen Reader: A scriptable screen reader for the Linux GNOME desktop environment”. There’s more about this at Groklaw.
IBM Accessibility Practice News
I thought this press release would be of interest to those who have been following the important accessibility issues raised in the last year, though it has nothing to do with ODF: “IBM Accessibility Technology Opens Web to Students and … Continue reading
ODF, XForms, Accessibility: Connecting the Dots
I’ve been meaning to point to the blog entry by David Berlind called “ODF subpar for the disabled? Not so fast says Google researcher” and add a comment. First, T.J. Raman was a colleague of mine when I was in … Continue reading
OASIS forms Accessibility Subcommittee within the OpenDocument Technical Committee
See the subcommittee page at OASIS for details.
Regarding ODF, accessibility, and IBM
Accessibility is an important global issue and, in the case I’ve spent so much time discussing in this blog, whether it’s for whatever is needed in the ODF specification or for applications that support ODF (indeed, there seems to have … Continue reading
The latest IBM Systems Journal on Accessibility
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s announcement of our donation of software to make Firefox more accessible comes the new IBM Systems Journal with a focus on Accessibility. All the articles are available online via the link.
IBM, Firefox, and Accessibility
See the article in InternetNews: “IBM Donates Code to Firefox”. I’ll post some more links later today. Update: Here is the press release: “IBM Contributes Open Source Code to Make FireFox Browser More Accessible”. Update #2: Here’s another link, this … Continue reading
