[Athen] Standards for Developing Accessible Software Applications?

[Patrick Burke]

Hi Al,

I'm not a programmer either, but here are a couple of starting 
points, at least on the Windows side.

Designing Accessible Applications (Microsoft):
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa291864.aspx>

Developer Guidelines (IBM, for hardware & software):
<http://www-03.ibm.com/able/guidelines/index.html>

Patrick
At 08:57 AM 8/26/2008, Al Puzzuoli wrote:


>I am working with a developer of antivirus software, who is 

>interested  in increasing the accessibility of their UI.  I am a 

>screen reader user myself, not a programmer.  I can tell them about 

>the pitfalls of using nonstandard windows controls, advise them to 

>adhere to standard windows keyboard commands, etc. I'm wondering 

>however, whether there are any written guidelines which I could 

>suggest that they study?  There are any number of similar standards 

>out there for web developers, so I would think that something 

>similar should exist for developers of software applications.

>

>Thanks for any info,

>

>

>Al Puzzuoli

>Information Technologist

>Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities  517-884-1915  120 

>Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI  48824-1033 

><http://www.rcpd.msu.edu/>http://www.rcpd.msu.edu



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Patrick J. Burke

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