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Magazine articles of special interest to people with disabilities.

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InternetNews October 3, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Target.com Faces Class Action Suit Over Accessibility What steps should e-commerce store owners take to ensure their site's accessibility to the blind?
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Erik Sofge	DARPA's Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like Prosthetic In a first for prosthetics, a new mechanical arm gives its user the sense of touch.
Bank Technology News May 2007 Rebecca Sausner	Security: When Lock Downs Lock Out The Blind Banks and vendors are working to make online tools secure and usable for the visually impaired.
InternetNews March 22, 2007 David Needle	IBM Makes Software, Web, Accessibility Push Research finds accessibility rarely included in computer science curriculum. IBM announced an initiative to give teachers wider access to learning material about assistive technologies.
This Old House Mary Jo Peterson	A Bath to Grow Old With Bathroom design features for meeting the demands of the aging.
Inc. February 2007 John Grossmann	Anna Bradley Picks a Fight She was broke, alone, and physically devastated - and then she picked up on a little-remarked federal requirement called Section 508. With that, Anna Bradley had both a calling and a pioneering business.
Inc. February 2007 John Grossmann	Welcome! No, Not You American business moves fitfully toward website accessibility for the disabled.
CIO February 1, 2007 Elizabeth Montalbano	Project Makes Web More Accessible to the Blind IBM has developed a set of application programming interfaces collectively called IAccessible2 which make it easy for visuals in applications based on ODF and other Web technologies to be interpreted by screen readers that reproduce information verbally.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Prachi Patel-Predd	The Enabler How Rob Sinclair has been spearheading Microsoft's efforts to make computer software and devices more usable for people with physical or learning disabilities.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Sandra Upson	Tongue Vision A fuzzy outlook for an unpalatable technology: BrainPort, designed to help the blind, is telling you that you are facing a round object. It might be a tennis ball right in front of you. But then again, it might be a hot-air balloon a kilometer away. You really can't tell.
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