IBM Donates Accessibility Framework to Eclipse
Tool set includes screen reader, validation and testing utilities
From: SD Times - 12/21/2007
By: Alex Handy

With a lot of help from IBM, Eclipse is making Web sites more accessible to
the visually impaired.  

IBM this month began contributing pieces of its Accessibility Tools Framework
to the Eclipse Foundation. Over the next six months, the company hopes to
make the entire framework available, including validation and testing tools
for assessing the usability of Web sites for the disabled. The Eclipse
Foundation now has under its umbrella IBM's aiBrowser, which allows embedded
video content to be made more accessible to users with visual disabilities,
but future code drops will greatly expand the framework. 

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IBM Accessibility Framework Now Accessible via Eclipse
First piece to be delivered, aiBrowser, helps visually disabled with video content

From: SD Times - 01/15/2008 - page 6
By: Alex Handy

With a lot of help from IBM, Eclipse is making Web sites more accessible to
the visually impaired. IBM in December began contributing pieces of its
Accessibility Tools Framework to the Eclipse Foundation. Over the next six
months, the company hopes to make the entire framework available, including
validation and testing tools for assessing the usability of Web sites for the
disabled. 

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Links:
aiBrowser
http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/acc_tech/aibrowser_e.htm
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/aibrowser

Eclipse Foundation
http://www.eclipse.org/org/

Mike Squillace: The philosophy of accessibility
http://www-03.ibm.com/able/news/squillace.html