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July 15, 2008
What is the Social Accessibility Project?
The Social Accessibility Project is a service whose goal is to make Web pages more accessible to people with disabilities. The service gathers users' input and uses the power of the open community while not changing any existing content.
This pilot service focuses on users of screen readers. Users encountering Web access problems anywhere at any time can immediately report problems to the Social Accessibility server. Volunteers (called supporters) can be quickly notified and can easily respond by creating and publishing the requested accessibility metadata, which will help other users who encounter the same problems. Users themselves are also allowed to improve accessibility of pages by sharing landmarks on a page. Site owners can learn about methods for future accessibility renovations based on the volunteers' external metadata.
The system consists of tools and a server that enables the collaborative authoring. The entire process is empowered by various collaboration services, such as comments, discussions, measurements, and incentives.
How to join it?
- Please get an IBM ID.
If you have any problem with IBM ID, please contact call center. +1 888 426 4409 or +1 303 262 5669 in U.S.
- Please sign up to the service with IBM ID and password. In the sign up process, please select "join as a user".
- Download and install a screen reader extension for Jaws.
- Please refer the tutorial section for submitting requests.
- For further questions, please refer FAQ or help documents, or
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Posted by Nancy at July 15, 2008 10:13 AM