New Web site and open-source accessibility testing tools will help developers meet the growing worldwide demand for accessible technology. Microsoft Corp. today launched a new online resource and released two new open-source accessibility testing tools for developers who want to create accessible and...
Teenage gaming heroes apart, few of us are perfect when it comes to dexterity, sight and hearing. In 2003, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Research to ‘measure the market’ for accessibility technology and present findings about computer users who could benefit from it. The results were surprising. One...
Discover How to Make the Computer Easier to See, Hear, and Use This free CD set shows you how to make your computer more comfortable and easier to use with accessibility settings and programs. The free Microsoft Accessibility CD set includes: Windows Vista Accessibility Demonstrations and Tutorials CD...
At the MVP Summit, Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Microsoft(r) Office at Microsoft Corp., made a major announcement about the next version of Office - currently known as "Office 12". PDF support will be built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Visio, and InfoPath - and...
Post by Aaron Brethorst , the Program Manager responsible for Accessibility and User Interface Consistency throughout Visual Studio on the Visual Studio Accessibility blog : “The team I work with is very interested in building up a contact list of our users who use Visual Studio with any and all...
A good post on IEBlog, the Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog, about Internet Explorer and Accessibility , especially the tip about how to access the Information Bar in IE using the keyboard - that one puzzled me for quite a while. The post was made by Kelly Ford - he heads up the accessibility testing...
Imagine what it would be like if more than 95 percent of all print publications, from textbooks to popular novels to magazines and daily newspapers, were simply unavailable to you. For millions of people worldwide who are blind or have other print disabilities such as mobility impairments or learning...
Kirk Biglione give some examples and he makes some valid points, such as why Microsoft doesn't use valid HTML including DOCTYPEs on their site (I've often wondered the same thing myself). But seriously, calling a font tag an “atrocity“? A little over the top, don't you think?
Aaron Brethorst, Program Manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio Core team writes about building in accessibility (which enhances usability) as you develop, not saving it to do later. He asks two great questions: How would you use your app if you couldn't manipulate the mouse, or if you couldn't differentiate...
When you run the FrontPage 2003 Accessibility Checker on a page that has include pages in it, the Accessibility Checker doesn't check the contents of the included page(s). I'd recommend checking and fixing your included pages first.