Digital solidarity (09/01/2009)
Microsoft, the computer company created by Bill Gates, will show this year the last version of its browser Internet Explorer, the eighth, who contemplates a substantial improvement of its accessibility, directed fundamentally to the users with disability, as it has briefed the company through its web page.
The new version of the browser will have a number senior of orders (of those that are executed with the keyboard) to facilitate the navigation without the need for the mouse, a characteristic thought for the users with visual disability or reduced mobility, also although it is useful for the rest of internauts, since it allows to carry out with senior speed certain tasks.
Likewise, Internet Explorer 8 will improve the zoom to broaden the size of the elements that constitute the web pages, which was already present in its former version, Internet Explorer 7, but that this has been perfected.
The new zoom allows to increase the elements and the letter and to visualize them with senior clarity and definition, at the same time that he adapts the size of the web site, so that it will be able to be seen complete without the need for traveling horizontally, how it happened in the former version.
Finally, one of the new incorporation of the browser is the one that helps to the users to to see determinate page in way organized on including, beside the bar of directions, a button denominated "sight of accounting", that it allows to visualize in a more efficient way the page, and also to correct errors like images, menus or texts out of place.
Source: SID http://sid.usal.es/mostrarficha.asp?ID=32813&Fichero=1.1
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Portal web page The ICT and the Disability
http://discapacitat-en.blogspot.com
http://www.diversitatfuncional.org
The new version of the browser will have a number senior of orders (of those that are executed with the keyboard) to facilitate the navigation without the need for the mouse, a characteristic thought for the users with visual disability or reduced mobility, also although it is useful for the rest of internauts, since it allows to carry out with senior speed certain tasks.
Likewise, Internet Explorer 8 will improve the zoom to broaden the size of the elements that constitute the web pages, which was already present in its former version, Internet Explorer 7, but that this has been perfected.
The new zoom allows to increase the elements and the letter and to visualize them with senior clarity and definition, at the same time that he adapts the size of the web site, so that it will be able to be seen complete without the need for traveling horizontally, how it happened in the former version.
Finally, one of the new incorporation of the browser is the one that helps to the users to to see determinate page in way organized on including, beside the bar of directions, a button denominated "sight of accounting", that it allows to visualize in a more efficient way the page, and also to correct errors like images, menus or texts out of place.
Source: SID http://sid.usal.es/mostrarficha.asp?ID=32813&Fichero=1.1
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Portal web page The ICT and the Disability
http://discapacitat-en.blogspot.com
http://www.diversitatfuncional.org
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