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AEGIS Internati9onal Workshop - Open Source Accessibility Project
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ÆGIS 1st
Pan-European Workshop
‘Accessibility
for All: Open Source-based Generalised Accessibility Support for Mainstream ICT
Devices/Applications’
5th June
2009,
INVITATION
You
can register for this and the User forum and/or Workshop at:
http://www.aegis-project.eu/user_forum.html
Having
affordable accessibility support into mainstream ICT devices/applications is
much wanted in the disability community. Accessible devices and applications
offer the backbone to many people with disabilities across
Supported
by the 7th Framework Programme on Research and Technological
Development of the European Union, the ÆGIS (Open Source-based Generalised
Accessibility Support for Mainstream ICT) project aims to develop an Open
Accessibility Framework (OAF) through which aspects of the design, development
and deployment of accessible mainstream ICT are addressed. The OAF will provide
developers with embedded and built-in accessibility solutions, as well as
toolkits for “engraving” accessibility in existing and emerging
mass-market ICT-based products, thus making accessibility open, plug and play,
personalised and configurable, realistic and applicable in various contexts.
Simultaneously, the project will provide Open Source Accessible Desktop
Applications to the end-users (people with disabilities, older people)
On
behalf of the ÆGIS Consortium, we kindly invite you to participate in its first
Pan-European Workshop that will take place on Friday 5th June 2009
at Research In Motion UK Ltd, Slough,
This
workshop will present the preliminary findings of the project related to the
Use Cases selection and preliminary user requirements, thus stimulating
discussions on these issues between both end-users and application developers. Its outcome will be
taken into account by the Consortium during the further course of the project.
Key stakeholders from relevant areas are expected to participate (such as end
users’ representatives and organisations, EC representatives,
technologies developers, etc.). This workshop therefore is an excellent chance
to meet
experts from relevant fields.
Participation
to the ÆGIS workshop is free of charge.
However, due to space limitation, participation will be on a first-come
first-served basis. We would appreciate it if you could return the enclosed registration form before Thursday,
30 April 2009.
For
further information about the ÆGIS project, please visit the ÆGIS website at www.aegis-project.eu.
http://www.aegis-project.eu/user_forum.html
We
are looking forward to welcome you on the 5th of June!
Yours
sincerely,
Dr.
Evangelos Bekiaris Peter
Korn
ÆGIS Coordinator ÆGIS
Technical Manager
Technical Advisor
01865 759813
077121 68901
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now!
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From:
Sent: 04 May 2009 09:52
To: ASSISTECH@...
Subject: Re: switch operated web
cams
Ah, right – thanks
David – I’ll have a go again
_______________________________________________
Paul D. Nisbet
Senior Research Fellow
Communication, Access,
Literacy and Learning (CALL)
Tel. 0131 651
6236 Fax 0131 651 6234
email Paul.Nisbet@...
CALL
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The Scottish Computer
Voice: http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk
Books for
All: http://www.booksforall.org.uk
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WordTalk reader for Word:
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From:
Sent: 24 April 2009 12:03
To: ASSISTECH@...
Subject: Re: switch operated web
cams
Slight commercial interest
Just as a point of information Hotspots is
not restricted to one window. Spots can be set anywhere on the screen
covering more than one window. What does only react to single windows is
the automatic loading of new spot sets when new windows are opened – but
you don’t need to use that.
For switch users you can access hotspots
by putting hotkey controls on each spot and activating them from an on-screen
scanning keyboard.
David
Technical Advisor
01865 759813
077121 68901
Why not visit our website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
Please visit our
website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
The ACE Centre is a registered charity (no 1040868) You can donate here
now!
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From:
Sent: 24 April 2009 10:50
To: ASSISTECH@...
Subject: switch operated web cams
Looking for advice here:
A teacher asked me if it would be possible to set up
a web cam for a pupil with high spinal injury who is reclined and has very
limited head control, so that he could see more around him. He has a laptop and
is an expert chin joystick (mini point it) user. I wasn’t entirely
convinced about the whole idea but I got a Logitech Sphere AF camera (£60 from
CPC) which has pan and tilt motors and installed it on the laptop. I’m
still not sure if it helps him see around, but it was fantastic fun because he
could use the joystick to operate the controls on screen to swivel the camera,
zoom in, take photos and videos, open and edit them in Picasa etc.
Opportunities for fun and education are immense.
You need to have a mouse or pointing device though,
and I was thinking it would be nice if switch users could use the camera as
well. You can control the pan and tilt with arrow keys (=> switches), but there’s
no keyboard control of the buttons for taking photos and the motor control is a
separate window, and I think HotSpots can only do one window.
I think it could be done by creating macros and then
assigning macro playback keystrokes to switches, so has anyone got suggestions
for a good free/cheap macro program for Windows XP? There seems to be a zillion
available
Paul
_______________________________________________
Paul D. Nisbet
Senior Research Fellow
Communication, Access, Literacy and
Learning (CALL)
Tel. 0131 651 6236 Fax 0131
651 6234
email Paul.Nisbet@...
CALL
SQA Digital Exam Papers: http://www.AdaptedDigitalExams.org.uk
The Scottish Computer Voice: http://www.theScottishVoice.org.uk
Books for All: http://www.booksforall.org.uk
Books for All blog: http://pauln.edublogs.org/
WordTalk reader for Word: http://www.wordtalk.org.uk
The
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