IBM Technology Helps Disabled Surf the Web

April 2, 2007 | Source: Network World

IBM this week demonstrated more than 20 new technologies, including several that make the Internet and offline applications more accessible to the disabled.

A technology called Easy Web Browsing helps the elderly, people with limited vision and the color-blind by reading text out loud and allowing users to customize the size and color of Web content.

Invisible Accessibility, which is in development, creates a delay in activating a keystroke, allowing a person with dexterity problems extra time to take their finger off the keyboard.