Technological option for the visually impaired

Salesboom.com, industry leading provider of hosted CRM software solutions, today announced a new User Interface option for visually impaired Salesboom users. The new interface, which completely redesigns the existing Salesboom UI, is the first of its kind in the hosted CRM software industry, and is set to pave the way for more visually impaired accessibility options in the future.

Salesboom is also planning on releasing a keyboard-to-voice engine integrated into the Salesboom system, which would allow users with visual impairments to have the Salesboom CRM system read back the data that was input. The new user interface update is available immediately to all Salesboom hosted CRM users.

"This marks a huge breakthrough for the CRM industry in regards to accessibility," commented Troy Muise, Salesboom CEO and Co-Founder. "By releasing this enhancement, Salesboom is continuing down the path which our competitors refuse to take - the one which gives accessibility to our end users across the board with no limitations.

The President of the United States recognizes the importance of accessibility with his launch of the Freedom Initiative. Salesboom is firmly committed to providing users with disabilities assistive technology to help them utilize our hosted CRM software system. We will continue to trail-blaze and innovate in this and other areas, while our competition simply stagnates."

The new assistive technology for the Salesboom CRM system is an important benefit for organizations which work with blind or visually impaired people in securing employment, as it provides a great system for use internally as well as with partner companies in providing stable and accessible work places.

"The new Accessibility Theme will make the lives of a number of our visually impaired users much easier at their workplace," Commented John Courtney, a senior software engineer at Salesboom.com who is also visually impaired, and has been with the company since development started in 2001. "In the United States alone there are over 3 million visually impaired people in the workforce. What surprised me is learning that we were the first hosted CRM provider to reach out to them."