BI (business intelligence) vendor Tableau Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Tableau 7.0, a release that boosts speed and scale as well as providing what the company calls "human-oriented" design and accessibility.
Technology can help solve some of the endemic problems plaguing Africa, but the first step is to address a variety of issues that prevent people there from accessing technology, said the chairman of Microsoft Africa. After meeting with leaders of African countries during a United Nations meeting in New York this week, he hopes to begin tackling those accessibility challenges.
The city of Houston has just concluded another successful Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR-Houston), and another 200 people have become more knowledgeable about creating Web sites that are accessible to all people, including those with a disability. At a time when businesses as well as public agencies are under pressure to adhere to worldwide Web accessibility standards, it’s good to know that more Web developers have learned important techniques that will carry forward in every project they do.
Some lawsuits aren’t worth fighting. Sometimes it makes more sense to listen to what the plaintiff is saying and agree with him. Not only does this save time and money, but occasionally the defendant can avoid looking like a fool.
It’s October, and that means it’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month in the U.S. It’s also time for my annual dissertation about what this means to an IT department. Today we’ll talk about the role of IT and Web accessibility, employee accommodations, procurement laws and a few other things.
Target has agreed to a $6 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed in early 2006 by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and others charging that persons who are blind cannot access Target.com.
The latest K Desktop Environment (KDE) was released recently, with several improvements and changes in the areas of file formats, support for users with disabilities, and the introduction of a new project management and scheduling application, among other upgrades.
The Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) program provides free accessibility training to Web developers who volunteer one day of their time to develop a Web site for a nonprofit organization. What better way to learn the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 standards and techniques for accessible Web sites?
The latest step in the lawsuit by the National Federation of the Blind against Target played out in a Baltimore court early this year, with Target’s appeal being denied. So the case will proceed, and if the NFB prevails a whole lot of corporate Web sites will need to be updated.
IBM’s iAccessible2, code-named Project Missouri, is a specification for technology used to help the visually impaired interact with Open Document Format (ODF)-compliant applications and was developed in part using Microsoft Active Accessibility (MAA). IBM is donating it to help OpenOffice.org battle Microsoft Office.
[My friend and colleague Robert L. Gezelter has contributed an interesting article on the security and accessibility implications of pervasive workplace Internet access. The following is his text with minor editorial changes. - M.E. Kabay]
AT&T is now offering cloud-based unified communications to its enterprise customers, adding to its existing portfolio of hosted VoIP services (with Voice DNA) and other managed UC services. AT&T UC Services are embedded in the AT&T managed network, offering accessibility to multiple device types regardless of location. The service allows seamless transfers such as those between devices like sessions between a PC and compatible mobile devices; or transfers between communications applications such as switchi
Premier Community Bank, headquartered in rural Marion, Wis., runs seven remote bank branch sites. Vice president of operations Pat Mielke sums up the bank's situation: "We're in central Wisconsin. Accessibility to network options is not plentiful. And where there are options, they are expensive."
At this year’s CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany, Christopher von Eitzen sat down with Linux legend Klaus Knopper to discuss his popular Knoppix Linux distribution as well as Linux and accessibility in open source software.
The Free Software Foundation Tuesday announced a major rethinking of the software projects that it supports, putting top priority on a free mobile operating system, accessibility, and driver development, among other areas.
Over the years, your company's Web site has gotten larger and more complex. Depending on the size of your organization, the site might have hundreds if not thousands of individual pages comprising the whole web site. At the same time, public-facing Web sites are coming under an increasing amount of scrutiny, including online legislation and regulations as well as brand guidelines. New "Web governance" services monitor your Web site for site quality, accessibility, privacy assurance and other important attr
The nightlife survey questions is a questionnaire that is sent out to club goers to collect feedback about clubs and nightlife in general. This sample survey template contains critical survey questions that collect data about the accessibility of the club, facilities within, security, music, live entertainment and how expensive or cheap it is to visit the club.
In the last few issues of this newsletter I've discussed graphics-based Web services that use visual techniques and metaphors to present complex data in ways that improves its accessibility and comprehension. There's been a recent surge of companies trying out new representations of the Web and in this issue I have a very new player in this market, Yoowalk.
The nightlife survey questions is a questionnaire that is sent out to club goers to collect feedback about clubs and nightlife in general. This sample survey template contains critical survey questions that collect data about the accessibility of the club, facilities within, security, music, live entertainment and how expensive or cheap it is to visit the club.
As a network executive, you want to be responsive to your users' needs. Those users might include people with disabilities - the temporary or permanent loss of a major life function, such as mobility, sight, hearing or cognitive ability.
As the lifeblood of your business, data must be easily available in the cloud to boost your agility and ability to innovate, but easy accessibility must be balanced with protection to ensure maximum business value.