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Thursday,
September 17, Holiday Inn Hotel Roanoke Airport Accessibility and Software Engineering
Jason
Grieves Our expectations of software are very high (as they should be!). We expect that the software we use will be reliable, secure, and perform well - we expect the software to "just work." There are many ways that we experience software, some of us use the traditional input method of keyboard and mouse. I and many other people augment this with accessible solutions such as larger screens, speech recognition, and screen readers. In
the Windows products, we at Microsoft consider accessibility- just
like reliability, performance, and security-to be fundamental to
all software in the operating system. Our feature teams create their
software to meet these and other core requirements, which combine
to create an operating system that meets the essential expectations
of our users. In Windows 7 we continued the integration of accessibility
requirements into our software engineering process. Accessibility,
like the other fundamental requirements, has been planned, designed,
implemented and tested in Windows 7.
Jason's passion for accessibility stems from his own visual impairment. In high school Jason created a PC solution for a girl entering first grade that also had a visual impairment. When he saw that his previous experience and skills in computers could be used to help other people, he knew he had found his career. Meeting
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