Google tests Web search for blind – Yahoo! News UK

July 29th, 2006 by Rebecca

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Came across this news recently. It seems that Google are looking into the possibility of checking websites for their accessibiiyt for people who use screen readers – software that enables blind and partialyy sighted computer users to access inter pages.
These software packages, such as Jaws, Hal, Window-Eyes, have spicific things that make web pages accessible. [...]

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Default Buttons in Dialog Boxc

July 29th, 2006 by Rebecca

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In the vast majority of dialog boxes there is a button that looks slightly different to any other buttons, maybe with more of a 3D look or maybe a slightly different colour.
This is what can be described as the default button. This means that this is the button that gets pressed when you press [...]

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