Amazon Echo: Lohnt sich die Entwicklung eines Alexa Skills?
Spätestens seit dem freien Verkauf von Amazon Echo fragen sich viele Unternehmen: Sollen wir auch einen Alexa Skill entwickeln?
Spätestens seit dem freien Verkauf von Amazon Echo fragen sich viele Unternehmen: Sollen wir auch einen Alexa Skill entwickeln?
Die Digitalisierung von Serviceprozessen bietet ein enormes Potenzial zur Kostensenkung. In Bereichen wie HR, Facility Management, Finanzen etc. gibt es immer noch viele manuelle Arbeitsschritte und damit ineffiziente Abläufe. Erfahren Sie aus diesem Whitepaper, wie Sie mit Enterprise Service Management Tools sämtliche Serviceprozesse digitalisieren und damit unternehmensweit Kosten senken können.
Es gibt einen in der Regel unbekannten Aspekt, was WLAN-Technologie betrifft. Nur die wenigsten Menschen wissen, wie hoch die momentane Übertragungsrate ihres WLANs ist. Woran liegt das und wie kann ich das feststellen?
Die Fähigkeit, Daten adäquat aus einem vorhandenen Datenpool zu extrahieren und auswerten zu können, entwickelt sich immer stärker zu einem strategischen Erfolgsfaktor. So verwundert es nicht, dass immer mehr Unternehmen den Blick nach „Innen“ (Insights) richten und den vorhandenen Daten mehr Aufmerksamkeit schenken.
Mit IT sichern und steigern Unternehmen ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Daher ist es unabdingbar, dass Business und IT ihre strategischen Ziele gut aufeinander abstimmen. Wie gelingt es den beiden Partnern, dem Kunden überlegenen Nutzen zu bieten?
Die richtige digitale Strategie zu entwickeln und diese auch noch erfolgreich in die IT-Struktur einzubinden ist aktuell die größte Herausforderung. Wie hilft hierbei das Pyramidenmodell? Wie steht es dabei um Flexibilität und Agilität?
Dass in Projekten Termine nicht eingehalten werden können, ist keine Seltenheit. Daraus resultierende Verschiebungen sollten jedoch möglichst wenig Auswirkungen auf das Projekt insgesamt haben.
Speziell auf mobilen Geräten werden Suchanfragen immer öfter nicht mehr getippt, sondern erfolgen per Sprachsuche. Das bedeutet für Shop- und Website-Betreiber auch, über neue SEO- und Content-Strategien nachzudenken. Denn Menschen sprechen anders als sie schreiben.
Cyberriminelle schöpfen bei DDos-Attacken satte Margen ab. Drei grundlegende Fragem, die sich bei einem DDoS-Angriff stellen, beantwortet Guido Erroi (Foto), Corero.
Technische Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen allein sind für Entwickler heute nicht mehr ausreichend. Wer zukunftsfähig sein will, muss den Triathlon aus IT, betriebswirtschaftlichem Verständnis und Soft Skills beherrschen (Bildquelle Progress).
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to