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.
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Recently, Microsoft participated in a field hearing held by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. There are critical issues for people with disabilities relating to broadband access. For a description of Microsoft's technology solutions and collaborative Read More...
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Hi. I am working on a research project to understand how people optimize their computer to make it easier to see. We just kicked off an online survey and are recruiting people who have vision impairments. So, if you have low vision or color blindness, Read More...
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The research presented at the 2009 DSAI conference proved to be representative sampling of the types of research happening in universities around accessibility. (DSAI: Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion) Areas of study Read More...
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If you're interested in the presentations and awards happening at the Web4All conference , follow our tweets at http://twitter.com/MicrsftTech4All . The theme for Web4All this year is meeting the needs of the older demographic, a hot topic! Also, Microsoft Read More...
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The deadline for entries is is coming up soon, March 31. Please take the time to read up on the competition and submit your entries. http://imaginecup.com/Competition/mycompetitionportal.aspx?competitionId=33 Since we launched the Accessibility Award, Read More...
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Are you a researcher or vendor working collaboratively to study the impact of technology in education? If so, there is a wonderful funding opportunity through the U.S. National Center for Technology Innovation. http://www.nationaltechcenter.org/index.php/funding/tech-in-the-works/2009-tech-in-the-works/ Read More...
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Announcing the launch of the Accessibility Award! This is the 2 nd year that the Imagine Cup has a competition specifically for a creating a new accessible technology solution. The competition is open to University students around the world. The solution Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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We've started twittering to share announcements, links to research and technology articles, plus to chit-chat with the Twitter community. The blog will be more expansive & detailed naturally, given that Twitter micro-blogs are limited to 140 characters. Read More...
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In June 2009, Microsoft is co-sponsoring the International Conference on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAI 2009). The conference is a forum to discuss innovations and research in the accessible technology Read More...
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If you don't know, Windows 7 was demoed and reviewed during last weeks Professional Developers Conference. One of the first reviews by CNET mentions one of the accessibility updates we are working on. Read the Review at CNET . A more complete demo of Read More...
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The University of Washington is conducted a study about a security feature on web sites. This feature, called "CAPTCHA" is often used when you are logging onto a web site for the first time and creating a user name and password. The research team is hoping Read More...
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Hello blog-world! A few days ago, Microsoft launched a new blog all about the next version of Windows, Windows 7. The blog is at: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/ . Today's post talks about the organization of the feature teams. If you're wondering where accessibility Read More...
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