[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Fwd: New ACM Journal on Accessible Computing/Microsoft accessibility in Vista

[Jan Whitaker]

May be of interest to some linkers.
Jan


>>To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
>>From: David Andrews dandrews at visi.com
>>
>>ACM is pleased to announce a new quarterly, peer-reviewed, archival
>>journal: Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS). TACCESS
>>publishes refereed articles addressing issues of computing as it
>>impacts
>>the lives of people with disabilities, providing a technical forum
>>for
>>disseminating innovative research that covers applications of
>>computing
>>and information technologies to provide assistive systems to
>>persons
>>with disabilities or investigations of computing technologies and
>>their
>>use by persons with disabilities.
>>
>>Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts for
>>consideration to
>>the Editors-in-Chief: Andrew Sears (UMBC) and Vicki Hanson (IBM).
>>More
>>information can be found at http://www.acm.org/pubs/taccess.
>>
>>David Andrews and white cane Harry.
>

>To: GWMicro List gw-info at gwmicro.com
>Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:06:56 -0500
>From: Jeremy Curry jeremy at gwmicro.com
>
>Do you ever wish you could talk to someone at Microsoft that knows 
>about accessibility?  What screen reader is going to be the first to 
>support Vista and Office 2007?  Are you wondering what Windows Vista 
>and Office 2007 are (which are just around the corner) will offer to 
>those of us who are disabled?  Then, tune into CRIS radio tomorrow 
>night at 8:30 P.M. Central time (2:30 UTC).  Simply go to 
><http://www.thechicagolighthouse.org/>www.thechicagolighthouse.org; 
>then activate the CRIS radio link to start the audio stream.  Listen 
>to an exclusive interview with Dan Hubbell from the Accessibility 
>group at Microsoft.  Find out what is going on behind the scenes at 
>Microsoft, and what they are doing to improve the lives of people 
>with disabilities.
>
>Do you wish you had a direct link to Microsoft?  This is Dan's first 
>appearance on our show, and it's promising that there will be many 
>more.  If you have questions regarding the interview, or if you have 
>questions for Dan's next interview, simply send me an email at 
><mailto:jeremy at gwmicro.com>jeremy at gwmicro.com.  Happy listening!
>
>Jeremy Curry
>GW Micro, Inc.
>Check out <http://www.gwmicro.com/vr>www.gwmicro.com/vr
>for our Online Demo Series
>Phone:  (260) 489-3671
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