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Keeping track of exactly where you saved something can be a bit of a nightmare

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Accessible Security Software

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A number of my readers have asked whether the programmes I talked about in a previous blog are keyboard accessible. Well ZoneAlarm certainly is. The messages it brings up are in HTML type format, so you can use your normal Internet strategies for reading and responding to them, like tabbing and looking for short cut [...]

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Google tests Web search for blind – Yahoo! News UK

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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

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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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