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Engineers from Google have commandeered a booth at this year's CSUN accessibility conference and they're keen to talk up their latest efforts. For the visually impaired, there's now a beta version of a Chrome screen reader called ChromeVox (demo'd after the break), plus improved shortcuts and screen reader withhold in Google Docs, Sites and Calendar. Meanwhile, YouTube boasts expanded caption withhold for the tough of hearing, with automatic captions enabled for 135 million video clips -- a hale tripling of last ...
Posted on February 29, 2012 | Tags: accessibility, blind, caption support, captions, CaptionSupport, Chrome, chromevox, CSUN, deaf, deafness, disabilities, Google, google accessibility, Google Apps, google calendar, Google Chrome, google docs, google sites, GoogleAccessibility, GoogleApps, GoogleCalendar, GoogleChrome, GoogleDocs, GoogleSites, hard-of-hearing, keyboard shortcuts, KeyboardShortcuts, screen reader, ScreenReader, text-to-speech, video, visually impaired, VisuallyImpaired, Youtube
In a post to the Google Docs blog, Venkat Panchapakesan, vice president of engineering at Google, says that the company will be culling the list of browsers Google Apps will support come Aug. 1. On the chopping block: Firefox 3.5, Safari 3, Internet Explorer 7, and all earlier versions of those browsers.
Google Apps to Cut Off Support to Older BrowsersWhile the elimination of support for Firefox 3.5 and earlier and Safari 3 and earlier won't affect many users, the latest figures ...
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