On Monday, May 7, 2012, the White House honored fourteen individuals as Champions of Change for their efforts to advance access to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for people with disabilities.
A Smarter Cities approach to closing the workforce skills gap
IBM has been a leader in making IT accessible to many people, including those with disabilities. IBM is committed to creating accessible and easy-to-use technologies that enhance the overall workplace environment and contribute to the productivity of a…
IBMers from all over the world collaborated to win a grant from FineP – Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos – the Brazilian government agency tasked with funding educational and scientific projects that will have lasting impact on the country’s social…
New profile: Insights on accessibility from working professionals
As cloud technology evolves to seamlessly configure, integrate and deploy applications, IT of the future will be able to focus higher up in the software stack to deliver business value. This article explores what we know thus far with how assistive tec…
Five common accessibility presentation problems — the frustrating five — can thwart your attempts to enlighten your listeners. Rest easy. This article identifies these troublesome issues, then details the techniques you can use to avoid the issues,…
As IBM turned 100 in June of 2011, the corporation embraced its history of service to the communities in which it does business. IBM encouraged employees to participate in the global IBM Celebration of Service. The IBMers who make up the Human Ability …
Many talented, creative clients and colleagues have physical limitations, such as blindness or visual impairment, deafness or limited mobility. When you schedule a meeting, do you take potential disabilities into consideration? These 10 steps should he…
Have questions about “Low Vision and Aging?” Join experts from the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) on the IBM Accessibility Facebook page, and learn more.
The ability to read small visual displays (SVDs) affects successful functioning at home and in the workplace. SVDs can be found in products as diverse as cell phones, personal digital assistants, photocopiers, fax machines, kitchen and laundry applianc…
Seth Bravin testifies before US Senate about higher education and employment for people who are deaf and hard of hearing
IBM is piloting a first-of-a-kind prototype application, called AccessMyNYC, for a limited time in New York City to study accessible travel solution requirements for Smarter Cities.
Eclipse now contains additional support for IAccessible2 application programming interfaces that makes accessible coding easier than ever.Eclipse contains additional support for IAccessible2 application programming interfaces that makes accessible codi…
The Lille Metropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM) has a new Smartphone application called “Tag My LaM” — that describes nearby sculptures when visitors are strolling the extensive outside sculpture garden.
Accessibility doesn’t and shouldn’t exist in a vacuum. The real world is messy. Derek Featherstone and ARIA can help.
Our world is becoming increasingly intelligent, interconnected, and instrumented, resulting in massive amounts of data being collected. This data is a treasure trove of information that can be mined to improve service, increase sales, determine risk, o…
Social networking has literally transformed the way the world communicates. What began as entertaining online forums for reconnecting with old friends and former colleagues has also morphed into real-time virtual hotlines for job posters and seekers, p…
For many people, accessibility and disability are philanthropic efforts that represent requisite components of every company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) portfolio.More and more users are adopting the mobile platform. It is predicted that th…
In the first part of this two-part series, the longdesc attribute was examined including its definition, criticism and support, and lack of browser support. In Part 2, let’s now discuss how to implement longdesc, some alternatives, and few other ideas to provide a long description for an image.
