/2011/07/21/disability-rights-conference-in-second-life/ Coverage of news, issues and events occurring in virtual worlds or those who create those worlds Fri, 20 Jul 2012 22:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 /2011/07/21/disability-rights-conference-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-208590 Phill Jenkins Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:28:00 +0000 /?p=3144#comment-208590 so, how are those with vision loss going to participate? Last I checked, Second Life® wasn't screen reader accessible, at least not without some additional research technology like the IBM® AbilityLab™ Virtual Worlds Accessible User Interface - see http://www-03.ibm.com/able/projects/virtual_worlds_accessible_UI.html and also enlisting people who have sight to annotate the virtual world environment so that people who are blind can participate. so,
how are those with vision loss going to participate? Last I checked,
Second Life® wasn’t screen reader accessible, at least not without some
additional research technology like the IBM® AbilityLab™ Virtual Worlds
Accessible User Interface – see http://www-03.ibm.com/able/projects/virtual_worlds_accessible_UI.html
and also enlisting people who have sight to annotate the virtual world
environment so that people who are blind can participate.

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