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Title: IBM helps blind 'see' web video - Geoff Adams-Spink, BBC News Post by: Mark David on April 16, 2007, 12:41:31 PM Technology giant, IBM, is soon to launch a multimedia browser to make audio and video content accessible to people with vision impairments. Codenamed the Accessibility Browser - or A-Browser - the software was created by a blind employee in Japan. The A-Browser will give blind and partially-sighted people the same control over multimedia content that sighted people have using a mouse. IBM says it will be available later this year and hopes it will be free.
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