{"id":6229,"date":"2009-10-28T03:12:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2009-10-28T03:12:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T18:12:50","slug":"ibm-research-lab-in-tokyo-develops-technology-to-control-reading-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/ibm-research-lab-in-tokyo-develops-technology-to-control-reading-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Research Lab in Tokyo Develops Technology to Control Reading Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/trl\/extfnt_e.htm\">IBM Research &#8211; Tokyo<\/a> is working on a way to easily arrange the reading flow of screen readers and mobile devices.<br \/>\nWith the visual editor technology they are developing, webmasters can drag-and-drop the connected arrows that will lead the screen reader in an arbrary order. You can even adjust the granularity of the reading order, giving you detailed control or flexiblity.<br \/>\nThis new technology not only makes it easier for the visually impared to &#8220;listen to&#8221; web pages, but also improve the interaction with rich media and non-PC devices. IBM says you can apply this technology to enhance accessibilty and operability of a variety of contents such as PDFs, Flash movies, PowerPoint documents, and web pages on mobile devices.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QBCcSMcZ3A0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at IBM Research &#8211; Tokyo is working on a way to easily arrange the reading flow of screen readers and mobile devices. With the visual editor technology they are developing, webmasters can drag-and-drop the connected arrows that will lead the screen reader in an arbrary order. You can even adjust the granularity of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/ibm-research-lab-in-tokyo-develops-technology-to-control-reading-flow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IBM Research Lab in Tokyo Develops Technology to Control Reading Flow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[99,591,1614,1615,2376,2380,4047],"class_list":["post-6229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-cell-phone","tag-ibm-japan","tag-ibm-research","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-browsing","tag-web-design","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}