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Tag Archives: JAWS
Windows 8 Accessibility
I was excited to find read that Microsoft is making a big effort to integrate accessibility features into their new touchscreen Windows 8 user interface. Windows has come out of the box with at least some accessibility features like high contrast and an on screen keyboard for years, but Windows 7 brought big improvements with [...]
Kindle Games Accessibility
I am currently writing a lot of game reviews for the Kindle game blog: www.kindle-apps.net. It is run by the same person who runs the other blog I’ve been writing for for about a year: BlogKindle.com. I’ve heard from blind friends that the Kindle is not very accessible at all in general. Would you agree? [...]
PDF Accessibility
A friend passed along a link to me about the accessibility of PDF’s. The report is quite extensive, provides great information on how accessible PDF’s really are. The Australian Government’s study into the Accessibility of the Portable Document Format for people with a disability This article is from the Australian Government Department of FInance and [...]
Thoughts on the Google Apps for Education Complaints.
On March 15, the National Federation for the Blind filed complaints against Northwestern University and New York University for adopting Google Apps for Education, a version of Gmail and Google Docs designed to be used in schools. You can find out more in depth information from this E-Commerce Times article or this article from the [...]
iPhone Apps for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
There are a couple of apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad that are made for visually impaired users. One is iBlink. iBlink is a radio that provides podcasts and news of special interest for people who are blind or visually impaired, or for people who have an interest in learning more about what [...]
System Access
I asked a friend to write a guest post about his experiences with System Access, a free screen reader that is a great alternative for JAWS: Many blind and visually impaired computer users must use what is often referred to as a screen-reader in order to interact with programs on their machines as well as [...]
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