Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) February 05, 2015
sitecues® has announced that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s website is now enabled with their product. Visitors will now be able to easily access information on the EEOC’s website because of sitecues’ intuitive zoom and speech functionality.
sitecues® is a product of Ai Squared, the makers of ZoomText and the Window-Eyes family of products. sitecues’ technology enables visual impaired visitors to navigate websites and makes their content easier to see, hear and use.
“This initiative demonstrates how government agencies can go beyond accessibility regulations; offering their constituents a simple and intuitive website experience that makes their content more accessible and usable for individuals with disabilities as well as boomers and seniors. Visitors to EEOC.gov will have the ability to customize the user experience to their specific needs, making it easier to read, hear and complete tasks. It’s like giving free assistive technology to every website visitor,” said Marc Zablatsky, Vice President and General Manager of sitecues by Ai Squared.
sitecues is a turnkey SaaS product that is easily integrated into existing websites, and enables the website with intuitive zoom and speech functionality. People vary greatly, but the web is currently delivered as though one size fits all. With sitecues, website owners can better serve individuals with severe low vision, age related diminished vision (boomers and seniors) and other visual and print difficulties by making their sites easier to read, hear and consume content thus making their sites more inclusive and enjoyable to visit.
About sitecues:
sitecues by Ai Squared http://www.sitecues.com is a SaaS accessibility product that builds zoom and speech capabilities right into websites, so people with low vision other visual and print difficulties can more easily see and hear content. Over the past 20 years, Ai Squared http://www.aisquared.com has been the worldwide leader in assistive technology solutions for people with visual impairments. The product line is available in more than 20 languages and sold in 45 countries through a network of over 350 global distributors. Ai Squared's screen magnification and screen reading products dramatically improve a computer's usability and friendliness for users who are blind or low vision, raising their productivity, satisfaction, and independence. In addition to sitecues, Ai Squared products include ZoomText, ZoomText Large-Print Keyboard, ZoomText ImageReader, ZoomText Mac, Window-Eyes, the ZoomReader iOS app, and the ZoomContacts iPad app.
About Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (http://www.eeoc.gov) is the nation’s lead enforcer of federal employment anti-discrimination laws and chief promoter of equal employment opportunity since 1965. The agency is responsible for enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Titles I and V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and Title II of the Genetic Nondiscrimination Act of 2008. Together, these laws protect private, public, and federal workers from employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information. The laws also make it illegal to retaliate against a person for filing a charge of, or participating in an investigation or lawsuit regarding, employment discrimination.