Yahoo!'s Accessibility Team created this blog with a single and simple purpose: To reflect the experiences of individuals with disabilities, their families, and the professionals with whom they interact. While Yahoo! is widely known around the world as a technology company, we are first and foremost a company focused on people. So, for example, while our Accessibility Team works everyday to ensure that Yahoo!'s network can be used by everyone—disabled and non-disabled alike—accessibility, itself, is not our goal. Instead, as we see it, accessibility is the means by which we can enhance the Internet experience for all.
WHEELING IN ROME: ARE YOU SERIOUS?
If you’re not really one for challenging environments, taking on Rome in a wheelchair is not something I’d adviseRead More...
Part II: Assistive Technology and Accessibility Research in the Developing World
Establishing AT research in the developing world is not going to be trivial, especially given the overall lack of existing scientific research capacity. Building this capacity must be based on a significant long-term investment and a commitment from the state and higher educational institutions to reward research both academically and commercially.
Yahoo! India wins 2010 Universal Design Awards
the National Center for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), in association with AccessAbility and BarrierBreak Technologies, has awarded the Mphasis Universal Design Company Award to Yahoo! India R&D! for the year 2010.
Part I: Assistive Technology and Accessibility Research in the Developing World
The spread of research and scientific capacity in the developing world has been an area of intense discussion for several years within the public health community. The simple statistic that approximately 10% of global research monies are devoted to diseases that impact 90% of the world’s population is explained by the fact that such disease burden is primarily borne in the developing world.
AT in the Clouds
Maybe you’ve heard of the cloud. Depending on who you ask the cloud is the secret to making your business more efficient, the future of computing, a simple revisit to the client-server architectures of the past, or the dangerous aggregation of your data in the hands of a third party.
