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Accessibility apps are mobile apps that increase the accessibility of a device or technology for individuals with disabilities. [1] Applications, also known as, application software, are programs that are designed for end users to be able to perform specific tasks.
Watchfire's offering, now part of an IBM suite described below, tests pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues. The free tool was officially closed by the owners, IBM, on February 1, 2008. [2] The software is now available as part of IBM's Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition. [1] [3]
Additional accessibility features include the use of Assistive Touch which allows a user to access multi-touch gestures through pre-programmed onscreen buttons. For users with physical disabilities a large variety of switches are available and customizable to the user's needs varying in size, shape, or amount of pressure required for activation.
Web accessibility, or eAccessibility, [1] is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites on the World Wide Web by people with physical disabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed.
The first web accessibility guideline was compiled by Gregg Vanderheiden and released in January 1995, just after the 1994 Second International Conference on the World-Wide Web (WWW II) in Chicago (where Tim Berners-Lee first mentioned disability access in a keynote speech after seeing a pre-conference workshop on accessibility led by Mike Paciello).
Examples of local Global Accessibility Awareness Day events include: Since 2012, the Los Angeles Accessibility and Inclusive Design Group Archived 2019-11-21 at the Wayback Machine, led by Joseph O'Connor has organized a GAAD event. [7] Minnesota IT Services has encouraged employees to perform their jobs for 15 minutes without using a mouse. [8 ...
Accessible publishing is an approach to publishing and book design whereby books and other texts are made available in alternative formats designed to aid or replace the reading process. It is particularly relevant for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled .
The concept of accessible design and practice of accessible developments ensures both "direct access" (i.e. unassisted) and "indirect access" meaning compatibility with a person's assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). [2] Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity.