Web sites agree to be accessible to blind
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In one of the first enforcement actions of the Americans with Disabilities Act on the Internet, two major travel services have agreed to make sites more accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
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As director of Web operations at the American Foundation for the Blind, Crista Earl knows more than most about how visually impaired people can access the Internet. Still, when she browses the Web, Earl, 48 and blind, finds it time-consuming and difficult to use.
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Accessibility report slaps wrist of online shops The UK's top 30 shopping websites exclude disabled users, new research has found.â¦
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An "electronic eye" that can be fitted to a pair of glasses could help the blind cross roads more safely, scientists said on Friday.
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An Âelectronic eyeÂ that can be fitted to a pair of glasses could help the blind cross roads more safely.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates signed an agreement Friday with a Spanish association for the blind to develop better software for people with visual impairments.
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An "electronic eye" that can be fitted  to a pair of glasses could help the blind cross roads more  safely, scientists said on Friday.
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A new cellular application promises to help vision-impaired people who can&#39;t read the screen of a mobile phone. It responds to spoken commands with voice recognition technology and reads back menu options, text messages, and other information to the user.
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Could this be an end to broken links? New software replaces and updates links on Web pages.
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AssistiveGaming.com launches to make computer games more accessible to fans with physical disabilities.
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A new cellular application promises to help vision-impaired people who can't read the screen of a mobile phone. It responds to spoken commands with voice recognition technology and reads back menu options, text messages, and other information to the user.
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CHICAGO -- For more than 70 years, U.S. law has required that federal buildings throughout the nation give blind people priority in running vending operations, gift shops and cafeterias. There is federal funding for training and start-up costs for blind entrepreneurs.
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Disaboom.com, a new Web site for the 50 million Americans that have a disability, combines social-networking with medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips.
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One feature in Firefox is tabbed browsing, which allows users to load pages from multiple sites without having to open a new browser window for each one.
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Blog: Ask.com to offer tool that lets people search the web anonymously
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates signed an agreement Friday with a Spanish association for the blind to develop better software for people with visual impairments.
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By Paula M. Davenport, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 21--People with severe visual impairments can now send and receive e-mails, navigate the Internet and create documents and presentations at a new computer workstation in the Spokane Valley Library.