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Accessibility-related articles

Articles and white papers discussing development and accessibility


Assistive technology articles

A mouse adapter for people with hand tremor
J. L. Levine and M. A. Schappert, IBM, July 2005

Challenges and Solutions for Screen Reader / I.T. Interoperability
Kip Harris, IBM, published in ACM's Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing, SIGACCESS June 2006 newsletter

Introducing Linux® Screen Reader
Peter Parente, IBM, June 2006

Personalization, interaction, and navigation in rich multimedia documents for print-disabled users
H. L. Petrie, Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City University, G. Weber, Multimedia Campus Kiel, and W. Fisher, South East London Strategic Health Authority, July 2005

Semantic triage for increased Web accessibility
S. Harper, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester and S. Bechhofer, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, August 2005

Usable access articles

Usable Access - Conducting User Evaluations with People with Disabilities
Brenda Hagler, Cynthia Ice, Leila Johannesen, Simeon Keates,
Ed Kunzinger, Beverly Lovelace, Joe Sacco, Shari Trewin, IBM,
November 2005

General accessibility articles

Hardware articles

Evaluating the accessibility of laser printers
Michael A. Rodriguez, IBM, Ron Van Buskirk, IBM, September 2005

Java™ articles

Software articles

Introduction to OpenDocument Format
Ali Sobhi, Senior Consultant, IBM, August 2006

Integrating usability and accessibility
Leila Johannesen , Joe Sacco, Tim Hogan, Marc Beogner, IBM, February 2003

What's new in Discovery Server 2.0.1
Jim Riel, Lotus, February 2003

Developing accessible software for data visualization
D. Willuhn, C. Schulz, L. Knoth-Weber, S. Feger, and Y. Saillet, IBM, October, 2003

Enhance the accessibility of your GUIs: Build a customizable cross-platform look and feel for visually impaired users
Yannick Saillet, IBM, July 2003

Accessibility for Portlets Developed for IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms Version 4.1 -- Part 2: Testing and Configuration Settings
Ann Marie Fred and Stan Lindesmith, IBM, July 2002

Accessibility for Portlets Developed for IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms Version 4.1 -- Part 1: Motivation and Implementation
Ann Marie Fred and Stan Lindesmith, IBM, June 2002

UCD for different project types, part 2: Core design activities by project type
Lynn Percival, Jack Scanlon, IBM, March 2002

Making AIX accessible
Hypatia Rojas, Sanaa Abdelhadi, Jack Alford, Linda St.Clair IBM, November 2001

Designing a Palm user interface: Part 1. Lessons learned in porting an object-oriented, modal Windows user interface to the Palm OS
Patrick Cox, Velda Bartek, Keith Jones, IBM, September 2001

Designing a Palm user interface: Part 2. The finer points of porting an application from Windows to the Palm OS
Patrick Cox, Velda Bartek, Keith Jones, IBM, September 2001

Web articles

Structured HTML and CSS-based Web site templates
Bob Easton, Andrew LaHart, Marie Shafi and Jefferson Florentino, IBM, January 2007

Firefox: An open source accessibility success story
Aaron Leventhal, Web accessibility architect, IBM, October 2006

AJAX Accessibility Overview
Becky Gibson, Web accessibility architect, IBM, April 2006

Developing accessible portals and portlets with IBM WebSphere Portal
IBM, February 2006

Web accessibility technology at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
J. Maeda, K. Fukuda, H. Takagi, and C. Asakawa, IBM, September 2004

Web Accessibility: A Broader View
John T. Richards, Vicki L. Hanson, IBM, May 2004

Accessibility and inclusion

Accessibility and inclusion

Building blocks for digital communities


ViaScribe in action

ViaScribe used in introductory remarks at Canadian Club luncheon. Club's president introduces guest speaker in first minute of Webcast.


Walking the talk

IBM and accessibility

IBM and accessibility


Employer strategies


Adapting to a maturing workforce



Tools for thinking


Harnessing the power of the human mind



IBM tunes in

Technologies for deaf and hard of hearing people

Technologies for deaf and hard of hearing people


White paper

Datamonitor explores the state of accessibility

UDatamonitor explores the state of accessibility


Innovation that matters

Professor Wayne Dick uses WebAdapt2Me to read a Web page with ease.

Transforming Education. Professor Wayne Dick uses WebAdapt2Me to read with ease.


IBM Systems Journal

IBM Systems Journal

New issue on accessibility.


Rich Schwerdtfeger blog

Rich Schwerdtfeger blog

Accessibility Strategy and Architecture


Racing with heart

Matt King

Matt King competes in Paralympic Games


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