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aiBrowser

Also known as: IBM Accessibility Internet Browser for Multimedia, ACTF aiBrowser
2008 – 2010 Discontinued
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Open-source voice browser by IBM Japan (Tokyo lab, with Chieko Asakawa) on the Internet Explorer component, making multimedia accessible to blind users: keyboard commands to play, stop or adjust the volume of Flash videos, separate volume for speech synthesis and page sounds, annotations added by volunteers; code donated to Eclipse's ACTF project.

Facts

Developer
IBM Japan (Tokyo Research Laboratory), then Eclipse Foundation (ACTF)
Website
web.archive.org
Engine
Trident
Platforms
Windows
Details
Windows XP SP2+; Eclipse RCP application compatible with JAWS and Window-Eyes; 0.0.1 (Mar. 11, 2008) to 0.5.0 (Aug. 31, 2010)
Popularity
24/100 — Estimate: accessibility research tool, ≈1k users

Key versions

  1. 0.0.1TridentFirst release of IBM's voice browser making multimedia accessible to visually impaired users.
  2. 0.5.0Last version, released in the Eclipse ACTF project.

Version sources: eclipse.org (archive.org)

Sources

  1. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/AiBrowser
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/2015/http://www.eclipse.org/actf/downloads/tools/aiBrowser/