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ThisIsThe Sentinal -- "TWO IT specialists have joined forces to help entrepreneurs with disabilities launch their own websites. "According to Stoke-on-Trent-based firms Internet Business Solutions and T&T Consultancy, web pages adapted for blind and partially-sighted people are usually unattractive and inconvenient for fully-sighted visitors. Trentham firm T&T already develops and sells software packages which reproduce on-screen information as Braille and speech, making it easier for blind and partially-sighted people to manage e-commerce sites. Now it has formed a partnership with Internet Business Solutions – also from Trentham – to offer a consultancy service to companies which want a site that is completely accessible to people with disabilities, as well as being attractive and easy to use. Internet Business Solutions managing director Neil Erlam said: "To comply with disability discrimination legislation, websites have to be written in such a way that screen reading software can understand them."
Read and comment on the entire article at: http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/business/Partnership-opens-web/article-980444-detail/article.html Published by: ThisIsThe Sentinal
Date: May 11, 2009
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