Accessibility in Windows 7

This webpage is from Michael Bernstein, a development lead on the User
Interface Platform team where he focuses on accessibility. Accessibility is
the term we apply to the APIs and features that enable Windows to be used, to
be accessible, by as many people as possible so that, regardless of physical
or cognitive abilities, everyone has the ability to access the functions of
Windows. To enable this, Windows includes both built-in accessibility
utilities as well as APIs used by third party assistive technology aids and
by application developers to make sure their software is also accessible.
This is a topic that is extremely important to Microsoft and one that is a
key tenet in the engineering of Windows 7. Microsoft also has a
corporate-wide group dedicated to making sure that PCs are easier to see,
hear, and use. You can read more about Microsoft's accessibility initiatives
on http://www.microsoft.com/enable/.

Read the entire article at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/30/accessibility-in-windows-7.aspx

Submitted by Jane Berliss-Vincent

Links:
Hate Vista? You may like the fix (Submitted by Margaret Cotts)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/technology/personaltech/22pogue.html

Windows 7 Beta Download (Submitted by Margaret Cotts)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/default.aspx