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...

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...

Accessibility is now high on the European agenda as the European Union and 24 out of the 27 EU Member States have ratified the United-Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which states that persons with disabilities have the rights...

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...

When I was at the ICCHP disability research conference a few weeks ago, I met a researcher who is evaluating Daisy as a potential example of universal design. However, she told me that the Office Save As Daisy XML add-on was not working properly on her...

What is longdesc and why is it important Users with visual impairments are often not able to access images on web sites, now this is probably not news to anyone reading this blog; and you are also probably aware of the technique of using an alt attribute...

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...

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...

WebAnywhere did indeed win a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration! Congratulations! You can read about the awards at: http://matc.mellon.org/press-release .

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...