IBM Developing Virtual World Interface for the Blind

Virtual Worlds User Interface for the Blind is a prototype “accessible rich Internet application” (ARIA) that gives blind users the ability to participate in many virtual world activities. Although this interface for the blind is a GUI and can be used by sighted people, the virtual world space is not rendered pictorially. Instead, all information flowing to the user is text-based in order to allow compliance with ordinary screen-reading technology. Recorded verbal descriptions are also played for the user.”  (via )

Isn’t it what MUDs used to be?

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