- From: <thatch@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 09:28:36 -0600
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The IBM Accessibility Center (formerly IBM Special Needs Systems) has developed a set of IBM Accessibility Guidelines, one each for software, the Web, Lotus Notes, hardware and Java. See http://www.austin.ibm.com/sns/guidelines.htm. Each guideline contains checklists and links to rationale, techniques for implementation and methods for testing compliance. They have short sections on related subjects, for example, screen readers and the Microsoft Object Inspector tool for MSAA in the Software Accessibility Guideline, and Home Page Reader and Bobby in the Web Accessibility Guideline. These documents were prepared for IBM developers who need to understand what they must do to make their products accessible. All the guidelines include extensive references to related documents, such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and Windows Accessibility Guidelines published by Microsoft. This is the first release of the expanded IBM Accessibility Guidelines which we expect to update periodically. We would be grateful to have your comments. Please send those comments and suggestions directly to me, thatch@us.ibm.com, or Shannon Rapuano, shannont@us.ibm.com. Jim Thatcher IBM Accessibility Center www.ibm.com/sns IBM-HPR Subscribe at requests@talklist.com with subscribe ibm-hpr (512)838-0432
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