Improvisation Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 to Disabled Persons

Microsoft will add new features into the next version of Internet Explorer, to make IE more easily accessed by users who previously could not access the web. JP Gonzalez-Castellan, Accessibility Program Manager, in the post IEBlog, said that some features of the new IE8 features including user interface, which should ease access diimprovisasi for IE8, as Caret Browsing, Adaptive Zoom, and High DPI (Dots Per Inch).

Features that will add improvisation browser functionality for each user, not only for users who are disabled (handicap). Gonzalez-Castellan describes the use of parallel to the public, especially for people who sit in a wheelchair, who can not ascend the stairs, something that previously required by United States citizens through the Disabilities Act.

"Airport will also be given notification that the mother and baby with the train passengers with luggage cart containing the full feature can also use IE8, should be easier than taking the train or the baby's trunk. If the software can be just that, all happy. "Said Gonzalez-Castellan.

Meanwhile, Caret Browsing feature in IE8 have the advantage with the use of the web of low mobility, including for users who prefer using the keyboard or devices that interact with the keyboard than the mouse to navigate the web. Caret Browsing feature will be easier for users to navigate the web page using the mouse cursor can be moved at the screen and keyboard. They can select and copy text, tables or image by using only the keyboard.

Adaptive Zoom intended for use in low mobility, and will meambah element web page before the page appears in the screen. These features are different with the zoom function in IE7. IE7 easier for users to add a web page, raising elements of post-layout and displays them in the back screen, so users need to scroll web pages in vertical and horizontal, to see a full page zoom. Meanwhile, in IE8, by adding elements per layout, so IE8 will menampikan back pages and add content appear to prevent the horizontal scroll-bar. This will facilitate the user to zoom the page, do not need to scroll left and right, but only up and down.

While the features for High DPI, is also a revision of the existing features in IE7. DPI used to set the user specifically in the ink, or pixels to display computer, only to make the image. In IE7, and the ability to zoom in the web page content does not match the "scaling DPI settings" in Windows. DPI to facilitate image can be seen in the image settings larger than the zoom must be done in the browser. IE8 will automatically adjust the DPI scaling settings, to increase the scale of the image on a web page. IE8 Microsoft itself will be released in early next year, and according to plan will be released bersi beta Tester or public assessment, before the final version. (h_n)