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Microsoft intros free online training for developers

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SAN DIEGO, USA: Microsoft Corp. has announced the availability of Microsoft Accessibility Tools & Training, a package of free online accessibility training courses, tools and other resources.

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According to company release, the new training courses will help developers worldwide to create technology products, services and websites that are accessible to people with disabilities.

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Microsoft initially developed the online tools to increase accessibility awareness and expertise among its own developer groups, later announced to make the resources available, free of charge to governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) around the world added the release.

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"Microsoft is one of the technology industry's leaders in accessibility innovation and developing accessible technology, and we continuously work to improve access to our products and services," said Bonnie Kearney, director of marketing for Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft.

He added, "By making these training courses and resources widely available, we hope that we can help raise the level of accessibility worldwide for people of all ages and abilities."

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Microsoft is also offering an accessibility resource guide to help organizations meet the needs of people with all types of abilities.

The seven training courses that Microsoft developed cover a general overview course suitable to both technical and nontechnical audiences, a development overview course, and five courses covering the Windows platform technology, including Windows Forms and the Windows Presentation Foundation.

With this content, developers can focus on a range of topics, from general accessibility development to specific technologies, such as Microsoft Silverlight. In addition, dedicated, in-depth content on Web-development topics, such as ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) and HTML 5, is available.

All the training courses stress the importance of building accessibility into products and internal systems from the start of the development cycle, added the release.

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