----- IBM and GW Micro Join Steering Committee > for Accessibility Interoperability Alliance Expanded > Committee Drives Association's Strategic Mission > WAKEFIELD, Mass. - August 4, 2008 - The Accessibility > Interoperability Alliance (AIA), a coalition of leading > information and assistive technology companies > dedicated to enabling developers to more easily create > accessible software, hardware and Web products, > welcomes the addition of two new steering committee > members: Doug Geoffray of GW Micro and Richard > Schwerdtfeger of IBM. > > The five-member Steering Committee guides the AIA in > its mission to improve the lives of people who can > benefit from accessibility technologies. The AIA > accomplishes this by encouraging the enhancement of > current technologies, creating new technologies, and > promoting the implementation of APIs and specifications > across platforms and the accessibility industry. > > "We are very pleased to have Doug and Rich join the AIA > leadership team. They both have a pragmatic > understanding of the technical and business challenges > facing the accessibility industry today, and have a > long history of working across boundaries to advance > the state of the art in accessibility," said Rob > Sinclair, Chair of the Steering Committee and director > of the Accessibility Business Unit at Microsoft. "Their > technical expertise and long-standing relationships > with members of the AIA make them highly valued > additions to our Steering Committee. We look forward to > working with them in this new capacity." > > Richard Schwerdtfeger is a Distinguished Engineer, the > IBM Software Group Accessibility Strategist and > Architect, Chair of the IBM Accessibility Architecture > Review Board, and a Master Inventor. His > responsibilities include guiding the overall > accessibility architecture and strategy for IBM > Software Group and he participates in numerous W3C > standards efforts including HTML, WAI Protocols and > Formats, and Ubiquitous Web Applications. He chairs the > W3C WAI-ARIA subcommittee accessibility effort for Web > 2.0 applications as well as OASIS and IMS GLC Access > for All accessibility standards efforts. > > Doug Geoffray is co-owner of GW Micro, Inc. and leads > the software development and product support groups. > Geoffray has been developing assistive technology for > more than 25 years. He currently oversees a team at GW > Micro that focuses mainly on Window-Eyes, a leader in > Windows screen readers. > > About the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA) > Initiated by the accessibility industry, the AIA is a > group of leading Information Technology (IT) and > Assistive Technology (AT) companies, content providers, > and other key engineering organizations, working to > collaborate on the creation of solutions to > long-standing compatibility problems that hinder the > development of solutions for people with disabilities. > Since its founding in 2007, AIA members have worked > together to develop accessible technology for customers > with disabilities. Founding members of AIA include > Adobe Systems, BayFirst Solutions LLC, Microsoft, > Novell Inc., Claro Software Ltd., Dolphin Computer > Access, GW Micro, Inc., HiSoftware Inc., Madentec Inc., > Texthelp Systems Inc. and QualiLife. More information > about the AIA can be found at > http://www.AccessInteropAlliance.org.
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