Welcome to the Microsoft Accessibility blog! This is a central blog all about accessible technology from the Microsoft community of people passionate about accessibility. Various people will blog here on topics such as the end-user experience, the developer experience and the underlying technologies that enable accessibility.

Browse by Tags

All Tags » cognitive   (RSS)

• academic research
• blind
• deaf
• hard of hearing
• Imagine Cup 2008
• low vision
• screenreader
• Web Accessibility

• More awareness and recognition of assistive technology

  WebAnywhere did indeed win a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration! Congratulations! You can read about the awards at: http://matc.mellon.org/press-release . Read More... Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:58 PM by AnnuskaP | 0 Comments Filed under: screenreader, Web Accessibility, academic research, Imagine Cup 2008, cognitive, blind, low vision

• Imagine Cup Accessibility winner, WebAnywhere, up for today's Mellow Award

  Jeff Bigham and Professor Richard Ladner , from University of Washington, are in D.C. today for the 2008 Mellon Awards Ceremony . Their project, WebAnywhere , is nominated for an award, which celebrates technology collaboration in higher education, especially Read More... Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 5:04 PM by AnnuskaP | 1 Comments Filed under: screenreader, Web Accessibility, academic research, Imagine Cup 2008, cognitive, blind, low vision

• Prototype of accessible media player for the web

  At the TechEd EMEA conference in Barcelona a few weeks ago, during a talk on making web experiences accessible, we gave our first public airing of a video player written in Silverlight which is capable of meeting all of the WCAG 2.0 Time based media Guidelines Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:52 AM by AnnuskaP | 1 Comments Filed under: Web Accessibility, hard of hearing, deaf, cognitive, blind