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		<title>IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center - United States</title>
		<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/index.html</link>
		<description>By enabling human capability through innovation, the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center strives to help all people maximize their potential, regardless of age or ability.</description>
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			<title>IBM Researcher, Dr. Dimitri Kanevsky, honored as White House Champion of Change</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news//whitehouse_award_kanevsky.html</link>
			<description>On Monday, May 7, 2012, the White House honored fourteen individuals as &lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/champions">Champions of Change&lt;/a> for their efforts to advance access to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for people with disabilities. </description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Putting inclusive learning to work in Philadelphia</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/smartercities_philadelphia.html</link>
			<description>A Smarter Cities approach to closing the workforce skills gap</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 April 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Check out our checklists. Questions and answers about the IBM accessibility developer guidelines</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/accessibility_checklists.html</link>
			<description>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 all employees.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Feeling Fine in Sao Paulo, Brazil. IBM wins $3.2 million contract to develop accessible platform for vocational training</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/brazil_lab.html</link>
			<description>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 development.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Véronique Doux-Marot &#8212; Our French Connection</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/Veronique_Doux-Marot.html</link>
			<description>New profile: Insights on accessibility from working professionals</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Five issues to avoid for accessible presentations. Learn how to duck them with these techniques</title>
			<link>http://www-03preview.ibm.com/able/news/accessible_presentations.html</link>
			<description>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, whether you are using IBM® Symphony® or Microsoft® PowerPoint®.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Cloud desktop accessibility: A look at how assistive technologies work in the cloud and virtual desktops</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/cloud_desktop_a11y.html</link>
			<description>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 technologies work in this environment, 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 technologies work in this environment.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>100 years of doing business; 100 years of doing good. Human Ability and Accessibility Center employees “doing good” for the IBM Celebration of Service. </title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/celebration_of_service.html</link>
			<description>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 and Accessibility Center found many memorable ways of including accessibility as a focus of their participation in the Celebration of Service.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>10 steps for making your meeting accessible. How to design your meeting and include everyone.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/accessible_meetings.html</link>
			<description>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 help you design your meeting and include everyone. </description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Facebook Expert Hour on November 10, 2011 at 12 pm EDT </title>
			<link>https://www.facebook.com/IBMAccessibility</link>
			<description>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.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Making small visual displays accessible to people wih vision loss. AFB to develop consumer report on small screen access.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/AFB_smallscreen.html</link>
			<description>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 appliances, home entertainment devices, exercise equipment, and diabetes self-management technology. Individuals with vision loss face severe limitations in using such products safely and effectively because the visual displays lack accessibility features.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>A Testament to Accessibility</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/bravin_testimony.html</link>
			<description>Seth Bravin testifies before US Senate about higher education and employment for people who are deaf and hard of hearing </description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Accessibility in the City &#8212; New York City</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/Accessmynyc.html</link>
			<description>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. </description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Eclipsing expectations. New Eclipse support for IAccessible2 makes code more accessible than ever</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/eclipsing_expectations.html</link>
			<description>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 coding easier than ever. </description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>The art of accessibility. Knowing art when you 'hear' it.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/lille_museum.html</link>
			<description>The Lille Metropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM) has a new Smartphone application called "Tag My LaM" &#8212; that describes nearby sculptures when visitors are strolling the extensive outside sculpture garden.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 July 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Accessible Analytics - Complex Charts, Large Datasets, and Node Diagrams</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/accessibleanalyticsintro.html</link>
			<description>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, or make operations more efficient.&lt;br>&lt;br>Analysis of such large amounts of data, often called analytics, is increasingly desired by governments and businesses alike.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 July 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Social media sites get down to business </title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/fbexperthour.html</link>
			<description>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, political compatriots and natural disaster survivors. </description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 June 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Let's get mobile. Advancing mobile usability for everyone.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/mobileusability.html</link>
			<description>For many people, accessibility and disability are philanthropic efforts that represent requisite components of every company's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) portfolio.&lt;br>&lt;br>More and more users are adopting the mobile platform. It is predicted that the tipping point will be reached in 2013 with mobile devices surpassing the desktop computer as the most common Web access device</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>The WAI forward for accessibility. How IBM is making its Web applications more accessible</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/WAI_ARIAatIBM.html</link>
			<description>Learn how IBM is how incorporating WAI-ARIA techniques and examples into: IBM accessibility guidelines, product accessibility reviews by the IBM Accessibility Architecture Review Board, and automated accessibility testing via IBM Rational Policy Tester.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>A new vision for 'social security'. Home healthcare smart sensors help keep Italian seniors living in place.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/homehealthcare.html</link>
			<description>Faced with a stagnant, 10-year budget forecast, restricted resources and the need to address healthcare and safety needs of a rapidly growing percentage of healthy citizens over the age of 70, city leaders got creative. Partnering with IBM, TIS Innovation Park, the technological park of Bolzano, and Dr. Hein GmbH, the city sponsored the Secure Living project to help seniors safely 'age in place' at home. </description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Creating business advantage with workforce diversity and inclusion</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/questionauthority.html</link>
			<description>For many people, accessibility and disability are philanthropic efforts that represent requisite components of every company's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) portfolio. Well, that is one point of view. At IBM, we've traditionally viewed these issues from a more out-of-the-box perspective that asked: What if accessibility was a REAL business? How could including people with disabilities in the workforce create an additional business advantage for companies?</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Be part of innovation in the making. IBM AbilityLab technology now available for limited trial</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/experimentaltech.html</link>
			<description>Offering limited trial versions of select beta technologies currently under development by IBM researchers, the Experimental Technology site will engage clients and end users in a collaborative process that helps our innovations better deliver on today's most critical business strategies. </description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Lotus Connections 3.0 – Accessible Social Software for Business</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/connections30.html</link>
			<description>Designed with business people in mind, IBM Lotus Connections 3.0 software gives you fast access to everyone in your network - your colleagues, customers and partners.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Toward a Smarter Planet: Minding the Digital Gap for Our Aging Population</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/digitalgap.html</link>
			<description>Given enough attention, a browser that closes the digital divide between us and our older generation could soon become a reality.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM mobile web application helps City of Nettuno, Italy become smarter. Visitors and residents with disabilities can navigate historic city more easily. </title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/nettuno.html</link>
			<description>The City of Nettuno worked with IBM Human-Centric Solutions (HCS) to develop an interactive service providing real-time accessibility information via a smartphone application. Called &quot;Accessibility City Tag&quot; (ACT!), the service allows residents or visitors with disabilities to view accessibility information about Nettuno points of interest, filtered by their particular disability type, on their smart phone.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. IBM honored with award from USBLN</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/ndeam.html</link>
			<description>The USBLN 2010 Annual Leadership Awards highlighted employer achievements in seven categories, including supplier diversity and market share. IBM was among those honored, receiving the &quot;Employee Resource Group (ERG) of the Year&quot; award for exemplary strategies to advance disability inclusiveness in the workplace, marketplace and supply chain.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Opening doors for Web 2.0 accessibility with WAI-ARIA</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/resources/wai_aria_intro.html</link>
			<description>With Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), developers can make advanced Web applications accessible and usable to a broad range of people with disabilities.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>The Linux Foundation Delivers New Licensing Terms, Testing Tools for Accessibility Interfaces</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/ia2_accprobe.html</link>
			<description>In early July, the Linux Foundation announced new licensing terms for IAccessible2 (IA2) and the availability of AccProbe, a new desktop application testing tool for the development community. </description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Easy Web Browsing - customized</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/ewb_csun.html</link>
			<description>A team from IBM Research in Tokyo presented a study they conducted to determine if it was possible to customize an existing product, Easy Web Browsing, to each individual user, and presented their findings at the California State University at Northridge (CSUN) 25th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Better city, better life. China charts a course to a smarter (more inclusive) future</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/shanghai_expo.html</link>
			<description>In the six years since Shanghai won its bid to host the 2010 World Expo, China has appeared to be on a mission to revitalize the Fairs' faltering image. Critics of the nearly 160-year tradition claim that technology has rendered the experience obsolete. Why travel to explore humankind's latest achievements when you can get all the insight you need from a quick Google search? Allow the leaders of China's second-largest city to enlighten you: this Expo isn't focused on nature, or the world's oceans or any number of previously selected topics that may or may not be of interest to the average global citizen. It's about you. Where you live. How you live. And the many ways in which governments, businesses and individuals can work together to transform cities into smarter environments that contribute to an overall better quality of life for everyone.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Live Virtual Classrooms: Making the grade in accessibility</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/live_virtual_classroom.html</link>
			<description>Learn about virtual classroom solutions and best practices that instructors can follow to deliver the most accessible online course despite the limitations of virtual classroom tools.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 13:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>India advances towards accessibility</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/techshare_india.html</link>
			<description>In February, IBM was a gold sponsor of Techshare India 2010. Read about the conference and IBM's participation.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>CSUN sets its sights on San Diego in 2010</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/csun2010.html</link>
			<description>This year, after more than two decades in Los Angeles, the world's largest conference on technology and people with disabilities is pulling up stakes and taking the show south to the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, California.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Making inclusive travel and tourism a reality in Georgia. IBM co-leading public-private partnership.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/georgiainclusivetravel.html</link>
			<description>Recently, a public-private partnership - the Georgia Alliance for Accessible Technologies - has been formed to help make inclusive travel and tourism a reality in Georgia. Over 60 Georgia-based companies, research and academic institutions, NGOs and public sector organizations have been involved in the initiative, which IBM is co-chairing.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Speaking of Awards: IBM India Research Lab honored with National Award for Technological Innovation.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/spokenweb_award.html</link>
			<description>The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in India recently presented its National Award for Technological Innovation to the IBM India Research Lab for Project Spoken Web.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:50:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Educating for e-Inclusion</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/educatingfore-inclusion.html</link>
			<description>The need for a new generation of technology developers with specialized accessibility expertise is emerging, and groundbreaking Middlesex University has created a Master's in Digital Inclusion program to meet that need.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Accessing the Future. IBM and IEEE 'boldly go' where no one has gone before...</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/ieee_recommendations.html</link>
			<description>150 cross-disciplinary leaders from university, government, industry and advocacy organizations came together with IBM and IEEE in July 2009 and generated a list of ten accessibility recommendations to help ensure digital inclusion for current and future generations.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>2009 Deaflympics. IBM supplies on demand sign language interpretation</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/deaflympics.html</link>
			<description>IBM researchers at IBM made improvements to IBM Easy Web Browsing to try and help people with dyslexia and learning disabilities use the Internet more effectively.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Changing the game: IBM brings on demand sign language interpretation to 2009 Deaflympics</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/deaflympics.html</link>
			<description>IBM and the Chinese Deaf Association teamed up in 2008 to deliver a smarter communication solution in time for the September games at the 2009 Deaflympics in Taipei, Taiwan.</description>
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			<title>Accessible or usable? A new approach—applying the theory of usable access to accessible product design</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/accessorusable.html</link>
			<description>A product may be accessible – meeting all the criteria and requirements in all the accessibility standards and guidelines – but, people with disabilities may still not be able to use it. More to the point, they may not be able to use that accessible item to be competitively productive with non-disabled people.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 7:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>A More Perfect Union - Obama marks 19th Anniversary of ADA</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/adaanniversary.html</link>
			<description>On the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) President Obama proclaimed July 26 the official anniversary of the ADA, and announced that the United States would become an official signatory to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Out of Africa. IBM helps develop an e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/G3ICTtoolkit.html</link>
			<description>The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communications Technologies (G3ict) unwrapped a first-of-a-kind toolkit that addresses the needs of policymakers and regulators across a broad range of government agencies and ministries in countries that are implementing the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 3:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>FutureSpeak: A Preview of the 2009 IEEE Accessing the Future Conference</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/ieee2009.html</link>
			<description>First-of-a-kind conference developed to identify the next generation of accessibility challenges—challenges arising from the increasingly pervasive use of technologies such as 3-D Web, online collaboration, shared medical records, and advanced systems for transportation and communication.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 3:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Fortune Favors the Bravin.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/sethbravin_award.html</link>
			<description>IBMer Seth Bravin wins Employee of the Year Award from Careers &amp; the disABLED magazine.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 3:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM Symphony No. 1. Be free. Work smart. Create accessible documents.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/symphony.html</link>
			<description>Learn how to create accessible documents with IBM Symphony.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 3:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Accessibility innovation via standards, governance and training services.</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/incorporating_accessibility.html</link>
			<description>IBM can help your company make it happen.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 April 2009 2:11:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM Accessibility is now on Facebook</title>
			<link>http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/pages/IBM-Accessibility/66976090302?ref=ts</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 April 2009 2:11:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM Accessibility is now on Twitter</title>
			<link>http://twitter.com/IBMAccess</link>
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			<title>2009 IEEE Accessing the Future Conference</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/events/index.html</link>
			<description>A global collaborative exploration for accessibility in the next decade.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 April 2009 12:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>WCAG 2.0 and the future of Web accessibility</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/wcag20.html</link>
			<description>IBM interviews Judy Brewer from W3C about the new WCAG 2.0 guidelines and the challenges her group faced in developing the new principles.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>For CSUN 2009 attendees</title>
			<link>http://www-03.ibm.com/able/events/csun2009.html</link>
			<description>More information about IBM accessibility solutions and IBM presentations.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM Ranks in Top 10 on 2009 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity&#174; List</title>
			<link>http://www.diversityinc.com/public/5416.cfm</link>
			<description>Reflecting dramatically increased attention to diversity management among progressive companies, 401 applications were received, up 14 percent from last year.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>A World apart no more. Making the 3D Internet accessible</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/virualworldsui.html</link>
			<description>IBM has created a new prototype called The Virtual Worlds User Interface for the Blind that gives blind users the ability to participate in many virtual world activities.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Accessible distance learning: IBM joins Hunter College and DigitalChalk to provide captioned online courseware</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/hunter_digitalchalk.html</link>
			<description>To provide a higher level of accessibility for Web-based continuing education courses offered in DigitalChalk, IBM Research collaborated with Hunter College and DigitalChalk to add speech-to-text captioning capability for deaf or hard-of-hearing students.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Smarter Learning Technologies: Games? Are you serious?</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/serious_games.html</link>
			<description>Human potential comes packaged in a variety of abilities and disabilities. Enhancing it has become more of a business imperative than ever before, and immersive virtual learning technologies – serious games – are one way companies can play to win.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Cathy Laws: The laws of accessibility</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/cathy_laws.html</link>
			<description>The first law of accessibility: consider the needs of disabled people as early as possible when you are designing a product. Cathy Laws is one person who sees that this rule is followed at IBM.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Get serious: "Serious" game PowerUp made accessible by IBM</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/powerup_game.html</link>
			<description>PowerUp, developed by IBM in conjunction with TryScience is an Internet game accessible to players with disabilities.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Millie DesBiens: A tip of the hat to a tip-top diversity proponent </title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/desbiens.html</link>
			<description>Profile of a dedicated IBM professional who early on understood the importance of diversity and accessibility.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Small displays get big-time attention. </title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/small_displays.html</link>
			<description>AFB TECH Director Mark Uslan talks about how how an existing mathematical model for large digital displays might apply to measuring small-display quality, making them accessible to the nearly 21 million Americans who suffer from vision loss.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>A letter from Helen Keller. IBM commended by American Foundation for the Blind.</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/afb_keller_award.html</link>
			<description>IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research John E. Kelly accepted the AFB’s 2008 Helen Keller Achievement Award in Accessibility on behalf of IBM.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>E-learning: A lesson in accessibility</title>
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			<description>Accessibility in e-learning is an emerging awareness.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2008 10:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>On Board with Accessibility. President Bush Appoints Phillip D. Jenkins to the U.S. Access Board</title>
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			<description>IBM's Phill Jenkins recently was appointed to serve a four-year term on the U.S. Access Board.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2008 10:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Making accessibility accessible</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/accessible_tools.html</link>
			<description>An article on how accessibility tools are often inaccessible, and example of a fully accessible and functional accessibility-enablement utility - Accessibility Probe that was built using the Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2008 10:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM accessibility services and technologies client wins ComputerWorld awards</title>
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			<description>At a gala event in Washington D.C., TD Bank Financial Group was selected as a ComputerWorld Honors Award laureate and finalist for accessible IT.</description>
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			<title>The future is now. Web 2.0 mashup accessibility</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/webmashup.html</link>
			<description>For all of their promise, mashups introduce a number of accessibility and usability problems stemming from inaccessible services, inconsistent keyboard navigation and other issues.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:02:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Accessibility = Possibility</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/odep.html</link>
			<description>Accessible technology isn't just for employees with disabilities anymore. It's for companies with enhanced productivity on their minds.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:02:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Andi Snow-Weaver: Closing the gap with open source</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/weaver.html</link>
			<description>When you're all about standards, there's a tendency to set your own pretty high. At least that's the way it worked out for IBM's Andi Snow-Weaver. And apparently that's how Sun Microsystems saw it, too, when it awarded her one of its very first Innovation in Government Technology Awards.</description>
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			<title>One truth (uni&#8226;verse) about disability</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/g3ict_forum08.html</link>
			<description>Worldwide demographic shifts and changes in society's definition of disability are expanding the number of groups who can benefit from accessible information and communication technologies (ICT), fueling a trend toward universal accessibility design that's reflected in the language of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:55:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Vicki Hanson: Maximum impact</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/hanson.html</link>
			<description>Accessibility research manager Vicki Hanson says her SIGCHI 2008 Social Impact Award came out of the Blue, and she's right on two counts. It was a complete surprise to her, and it evolved, at least in part, out of her extensive work with IBM.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:49:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>As the (virtual) world turns</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/virtual.html</link>
			<description>Up to this point, three-dimensional Internet soap operas like Second Life have fulfilled more fictional aspirations than fiduciary responsibilities, but that's going to change - and fairly quickly. And when it does, where will that leave roughly 750 million people around the world whose very real disabilities prevent them from participating?</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:49:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>IBM and ATIA go beyond access to digital inclusion</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/atia08.html</link>
			<description>Technology isn't just about access anymore. It's about creativity, productivity, mobility and independence. It's about putting people in the driver's seat of work and life.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Leopard turns IBM's accessibility challenge into a differentiator</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/leopard.html</link>
			<description>Whoever said a leopard can't change its spots, clearly never met the team of executives, account managers, art directors, designers, production specialists, writers and editors at Leopard, a business-to-business marketing agency in Broomfield, CO.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<description>The introduction of the IBM Rule-based Accessibility Validation Environment (RAVEn), an Eclipse-based tool for inspecting and validating Java rich-client and Web-based GUI-oriented applications for accessibility.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>The need for accessible self-service travel kiosks</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/selfservkiosk.html</link>
			<description>The IBM approach: Make air travel easier with accessible self-service travel kiosks</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Accessibility-related articles: Dojo</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/resources/dojo.html</link>
			<description>Dojo: an accessible JavaScript toolkit</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Newsroom: How accessibility can help you attract</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/employerofchoice.html</link>
			<description>How accessibility can help you attract, recruit, and retain maturing workers.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Human Ability and Accessibility Center</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/index.html</link>
			<description>IBM can deliver solutions that address end-to-end accessibility requirements facing organizations today.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<description>By enabling human capability through innovation, IBM strives to help all people maximize their potential, regardless of age or ability.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Newsroom: W3C aims to boost web accessibility (wnunet.com)</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/leaving.html?url=http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2165091/w3c-aims-boost-web</link>
			<description>Updated accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Newsroom: Software opens up workforce to people with disabilities (New Zealand Herald)</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/leaving.html?url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&amp;ObjectID=10400966</link>
			<description>Updated accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Newsroom: IBM tunes in to technology initiatives for deaf and hard of hearing people</title>
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			<description>Updated accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Employer strategies for adapting to a maturing workforce</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/aging.html</link>
			<description>Updated accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Headline: Third China Forum spotlights accessibility standards</title>
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			<description>Featured accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Newsroom: Promoting innovative science and technology and establishing an accessible information environment</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/chinaforumrelease.html</link>
			<description>IBM co-sponsored the Third China Information Accessibility Forum</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Headline: Tools for thinking: Harnessing the power of the human mind.</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/toolsforthinking.html</link>
			<description>Featured accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Newsroom: Focus on diversity: Assistive technology helps propel career success</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/leaving.html?url=http://www.diversitycareers.com/</link>
			<description>Diversity/Careers in Engineering &amp; Information Technology</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Newsroom: Students with disabilities are making headway</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/leaving.html?url=http://www.diversitycareers.com/articles/college/06-winspr/tocampus_students.htm</link>
			<description>Diversity/Careers in Engineering &amp; Information Technology</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Headline: Walking the talk: IBM and accessibility</title>
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			<description>Featured accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Headline: Introduction to OpenDocument Format</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/resources/odfintro.html</link>
			<description>Featured accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Headline: Four IBM accessibility clients named as top public sector innovators</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/news/topinnovators.html</link>
			<description>Featured accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Newsroom: IBM to Help Colleges Make Software More Accessible for Disabled and Aged</title>
			<link>http://www.ibm.com/able/leaving.html?url=http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21275.wss</link>
			<description>U.S. Department of Education Applauds Effort; Congratulates IBM Programming Contest Winners</description>
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			<title>Headline: IBM public sector general manager speaks at first G3ict Forum at United Nations</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<description>University of Toronto leads project for adaptive Web applications</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<description>Featured accessibility news</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:59:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Series: Profiles of human ability</title>
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			<description>Bill Huber: Advancing accessibility innovations at IBM</description>
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