Techtree News Staff, Jul 09, 2008 2328 hrs IST
The company claims that this new collaboration software enables users with low or no vision to report Web content accessibility issues they faced on specific Web pages.
IBM (International Business Machines) has previewed a social accessibility collaboration software, developed by IBM Research, which allows Internet users to improve upon Web accessibility, particularly in case of the visually impaired.
The company claims that this new collaboration software enables users with low or no vision to report Web content accessibility issues they faced on specific Web pages. In addition, Internet users who wish to aid in improving Internet accessibility would be able to respond to such requests from visually impaired users by using the tool to contribute alternative text to solve the reported issue.
To explain how the software works, IBM cites an example: a visually impaired individual wants to find out what image is showing. The image shows a photo of Mount Fuji taken at sunset. Existing screen reading software may not obtain the same information as shown in the image, or a description of the photo is simply missing. Whenever visually impaired users face such difficulties, they can report the incident by using the collaboration tool developed by IBM Research and ask for an improved alternative text to be added. Their request would then be automatically sent to a server hosting the social accessibility project Web site where visually impaired users and Internet users who wish to help can register themselves to use the collaboration tool.
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