IndependenceFirst in Partnership with Microsoft

Published: Jun 20, 2007

IndependenceFirst, a Milwaukee company, has been selected by Microsoft, to take part in a new program aimed at making technology more accessible for the disabled. The nonprofit service provider for people with disabilities in the metropolitan area has been designated as the only Microsoft Accessibility Resource Center in Wisconsin.

“It’s a privilege to be selected,” Lee Schulz, executive director of Independence First, said in a statement. The Microsoft program is designed to demonstrate accessibility options and assistive technology products that make computers easier and more comfortable to use for people with disabilities.
 
Through the resource center, IndependenceFirst will work with information technology and human resource professionals to highlight Microsoft’s features that could eliminate the need for accommodations that would have been an additional cost to employers or individual users.
 
“Our goal is to work with centers across North America to increase awareness of accessible technology solutions that are available on today’s computers,”
LaDeana Huyler, product planner for the Microsoft Accessible Technology Group, said in a statement. 

Source: Milwaukee Business Journal, Wisconsin

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