<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>Hey app developers, both Android and iOS, no more excuses!</div><div><br></div><div><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: auto;"><span style="font-size: 28px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Automated Mobile Accessibility Testing</span></h2><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-top: 5px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IBM AbilityLab Mobile Accessibility Checker helps developers and designers automate, document and report on accessibility standards conformance directly within mobile hybrid and native iOS and Android application development environments.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It identifies and then helps resolve usability and accessibility issues, such as lack of description, low color contrast or limitations to keyboard navigation and focus, early in the development cycle to help deliver an optimized mobile user experience.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IBM AbilityLab Mobile Accessibility Checker establishes a new set of mobile development best practices that:</span></p><ul class="ibm-bullet-list" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><li class="ibm-no-links" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 11px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://1.www.s81c.com/i/v17/bullets/ibm_lg_bullet_grey_on.gif); height: 72px; clear: left; background-position: 0px 13px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ensures adherence to accessibility standards and government regulations</span></li><li class="ibm-no-links" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 11px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://1.www.s81c.com/i/v17/bullets/ibm_lg_bullet_grey_on.gif); height: 72px; clear: left; background-position: 0px 13px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Saves time and expense by correcting accessibility violations automatically</span></li><li class="ibm-no-links" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 11px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://1.www.s81c.com/i/v17/bullets/ibm_lg_bullet_grey_on.gif); height: 108px; clear: left; background-position: 0px 13px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eliminates roadblocks for developers less familiar with accessibility compliance requirements</span></li><li class="ibm-no-links" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 5px 11px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: url(http://1.www.s81c.com/i/v17/bullets/ibm_lg_bullet_grey_on.gif); height: 72px; clear: left; background-position: 0px 13px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Delivers better insights into usability to create a better mobile experience for all users</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mobile Accessibility Checker is currently available through IBM Business Partners.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IBM Business Partners can license this technology as a service or as a software component.</span></p><br><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/able/accessibility_research_projects/mobile_accessibility_checker.html?ce=ism0367&ct=is&cmp=ibmsocial&cm=h&cr=mf&ccy=us&ce=&ct=&cmp=&cm=&cr=&ccy=">http://www-03.ibm.com/able/accessibility_research_projects/mobile_accessibility_checker.html?ce=ism0367&ct=is&cmp=ibmsocial&cm=h&cr=mf&ccy=us&ce=&ct=&cmp=&cm=&cr=&ccy=</a></div></div></body></html>