Software a Sight for Sore Eyes
From: SiliconValley.com - 06/13/2005
By: K. Oanh Ha

IBM's Web Adaptation Technology software permits people with impaired vision
and disabilities to control Web pages to meet their needs. The software can
recite out loud what is on the page, enlarge text, block distracting screen
backgrounds or animation, and make the keyboard simpler to use. The
technology is being introduced as well for use by kids with learning
disabilities and physical problems. IBM implemented Web Adaptation Technology
three years ago at SeniorNet Centers throughout the United States. In early
2005, the software was placed on the Web download. IBM provides free access
to the technology via its nonprofit partners and is dispensing the software
through 40 partners in 13 nations. There are 10,000 users of the technology,
and IBM intends to make it available to even more people. 

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Links:
IBM Web Adaptation Technology
http://www.webadapt.org/?HSubmit=Submit&Font=0&Submit=Change

IBM Web Adaptation Technology Project
Makes the Web More Accessible to Vermont's Older Adults
http://www.vtseniorcenters.org/ibm.shtml

IBM Web Adaptation Technology
http://www.pacer.org/stc/wat/handout.htm

IBM Web Adaptation Software - PACER Center
http://www.pacer.org/stc/wat/install.htm

IBM Web Adaptation Technology - Techshare presentation
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_banes.hcsp?printPage=1

SeniorNet
http://www.seniornet.org/php/default.php