accessibility News

Visitors to the City of London Police website can now have the pages read aloud to them, thanks to a specialist computer program called BrowseAloud.

Raven Housing has enabled an innovative new product on its website which will allow people with literacy difficulties, dyslexia or mild visual impairments to hear online content being read aloud.

Access to Breckland Council’s website is set to increase thanks to a new free service which reads the website aloud to visitors.

Staffordshire Police website users can have news about policing in their community read to them at the click of a mouse.

The Texas Rehabilitation Association Awards Knowbility’s AccessWorks Program

As part of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s ongoing commitment to improving access to their website, they have enabled their site with an innovative new product called BrowseAloud.

In order to reach more visitors and inform them about the online services available, leading housing association Sanctuary Group has added BrowseAloud, a text-to-speech solution from Texthelp Systems Ltd.

The Pensions Ombudsman in Ireland is keen to ensure his website is accessible to all website visitors, which is why he has invested in an innovative text-to-speech solution called BrowseAloud.

It is essential that you see a walk in tub before you buy one. That's why Chicago Walk-in Tubs has a showroom with a selection of walk-in tubs on display. We are an authorized dealer for three of the leading manufacturers of walk in bathtubs.

Caerphilly County Borough Council’s popular website (www.caerphilly.gov.uk) now offers visitors an innovative new feature that enables web pages to be read aloud.

Accessible tourism is travel and hospitality for people with disabilities,seniors and Baby Boomers who will experience increasing disability as they age. NZ does not collect any statistics on visitors with physical disabilities or specialist needs.

Denbighshire Council have recently speech enabled their website with a revolutionary product called BrowseAloud, which will allow people to hear online content being read aloud.

“Where’s Lulu” Serves Up Accessible Places, Events, and Services in Boston.

"In modern society, most parents find it difficult to accept help from their adult children"

Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), legal obligations for website providers to make their websites accessible to the disabled have existed since 1999, supplemented by industry standards and best practice. ROKTalk has the solution.

Measuring the effectiveness of a website should not be only a matter of the facilities available for visitors or the sites use of Social Media. Functionality and Accessibility issues are fundamental.

Officials at Chicago's O’Hare International Airport today unveiled an accessibility initiative to make traveling easier for persons with autism spectrum disorders.

Another borough in London have made their website accessible with BrowseAloud. BrowseAloud helps people with literacy difficulties, dyslexia and mild visual impairments to read online content of accessible websites.

Ride-Away of Richmond, Virginia, has been named among the select number of dealers able to sell The Conquest, an innovative new wheelchair motorcycle.

Ride-Away of Norwalk, Connecticut, has been chosen to rank within the select group of dealers authorized to sell The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Ride-Away of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, has been named as a dealership for the highly anticipated Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Ride-Away of Norristown, Pennsylvania, has been announced as a preferred dealer for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Ride-Away of Norfolk, Virginia, has been granted approval to begin selling the vaunted Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Ride-Away of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has been selected as one of the premier dealers of The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Ride-Away of Gray, Maine, has been named as an authorized dealership for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Ride-Away of Essex Junction, Vermont, has been named a premier dealership for the much anticipated wheelchair motorcycle, The Conquest.

Ride-Away of East Hartford, Connecticut, has been named as a top dealership for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Mobility Works of Villa Park/Chicago, Illinois, has been selected as one of the premier dealerships for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Mobility Works of Detroit has been chosen as a preferred dealer for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Mobility Works of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been selected as one of the premier providers of the highly anticipated Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Mobility Works of Skokie/Chicago, Illinois, has earned the distinction of being one of the preferred dealers for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

HDS Vans & Mobility of Nashville, Tennessee, has been announced as a preferred dealer offering The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

HDS Vans & Mobility of Chattanooga, Tennessee, has earned the distinction of being named a dealership for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

HDS Vans & Mobility of Birmingham/Bessemer, Alabama, has been named as a leading dealership for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Advanced Mobility Systems of Mesquite, Texas, has been granted the rights to sell The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Advanced Mobility Systems of Fort Worth, Texas, has been named among the select dealers authorized to sell The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Advanced Mobility Systems of Austin, Texas, has just been named to the select list of dealers offering The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

Adaptive AutoMobility of Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been announced as an authorized dealer for The Conquest wheelchair motorcycle.

AEGIS project kindly invites you to the 2nd Pan-European Workshop/User Forum - 1st International ÆGIS Conference “Access for All in desktop, web and mobile field: end-user and developer perspective”, Seville, Spain, 6-7-8 October 2010.

Another company has made their website accessible with BrowseAloud. BrowseAloud helps people with literacy difficulties, dyslexia and mild visual impairments to read online content of accessible websites. Visit www.browsealoud.com for more info.

Another company has made their website accessible with BrowseAloud. BrowseAloud helps people with literacy difficulties, dyslexia and mild visual impairments to read online content of accessible websites. Visit www.browsealoud.com for more info.

Fraunhofer leads an International Consortium Winning the Grant For Research and Development Project On Introducing Simulation-Based and Virtual Reality Testing to Support Accessible Product design and Development.

The Open architecture for Accessible Services Integration and Standardization (OASIS) project - a Large Scale Integrated Project co-financed under FP7 - has released its first animated project video.

An open call for experts has been launched for supporting the evaluation of the envisaged ACCESSIBLE project results (evaluation of Assessment tools, developer designer aid module, and the Harmonized methodology).

To see how BrowseAloud works, simply click the BrowseAloud icon on the homepage www.rehabcouncil.org.uk to download the product free of charge.

AccessibleTwitter.com expands features and empowers disabled users to access Twitter, the popular social micro-blogging web service.

A recent update from the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act - Alliance addresses the Province of Ontario's political views on the issue of spending provincial tax dollars towards improving accessibility in public spaces.

The Valuation Tribunal is an independent body that hears appeals against council tax valuation, council tax liability, non-domestic rates, completion notices, penalties for failure to provide requested information and drainage rates.

BrowseAloud helps people with literacy difficulties, dyslexia, mild visual impairments or where English is spoken as a second language. BrowseAloud reads website content aloud highlighting each word as it is spoken. Visit www.browsealoud.com.

Thanks to grant monies from FAAST, Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida will provide assistive and adaptive technology for people with disabilities in Southwest Florida.