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From: Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
Date: Nov 24, 2015 8:21AM

We have not found Bing maps to be any more accessible than Googles. I know that Derek Featherstone and the folks at Simply Accessible were working on some innovative solutions to this problem. Perhaps one of them is lurking somewhere on this list.

When I was at DARS we found that Rand McNally maps worked reasonably well for our staff who used screen readers. I am not sure if this is still true since it has been a couple of years since I did any testing of Rand McNally's service and web applications generally have rather short update cycles.

Mike Moore
Accessibility Coordinator
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Civil Rights Office
(512) 438-3431 (Office)