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ÆGIS 1st PAN EUROPEAN USER FORUM WORKSHOP 4-5
JUNE 2009 RESEARCH IN MOTION UK LTD, SLOUGH,
BERKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM
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• MISSION MEMBERS
• Mr. Sawang Srisom, Assistant Regional Development
  Officer
• Ms. Worapan Buranasilpin, Independent Living
  Project Coordinator
• Mr. Wansao Chaiyakul, Webmaster

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ÆGIS 1st Pan-European User Forum Accessibility
for All Open Source-based Generalised
Accessibility Support for Mainstream ICT
Devices/Applications 4th June 2009, London, UK
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14.00 14.15 ÆGIS Project at a Glance By Dr.
Evangelos Bekiaris (CERTH-HIT) Summary
(1) Cell phones, PDAs are not accessible to
many users. Many of them are closed embedding
accessibility support directly is the only
feasible option. Some level of generalized
accessibility support is available in current
desktop environments but not yet widely adopted
by most t ICT products for those environments
thus only somewhat adopted by AT. Beyond the
critical need for better built-in support for
accessibility and AT, there is also the need for
mainstream ICT applications that are specifically
geared to disability use.
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ÆGIS Project at a Glance Summary (2) Even on
the desktop, (considered the most accessible ICT
environment), there is a major economic barrier
to e-Inclusion expensive 3rd party AT solutions,
which are unaffordable, since most of persons
with disabilities are unemployed and the majority
of the EU member states do not have programs to
purchase such aids to their citizens.
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ÆGIS Project at a glance Summary (3) AIM ÆGIS
aims, through user research and prototype
development with current and next-generation ICT,
to develop and validate the necessary
infrastructure and accessibility frameworks
needed for deeply embedding accessibility into
the desktop, cell phone, PDA, and rich Internet
applications.
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• ÆGIS Project at a Glance
• Summary (4)
• ÆGIS USERS
• 1) Developers of ICT infrastructure, applications
  and services
• 2) End-users people with disabilities elderly,
  experiencing one or more of the following mild to
  severe impairments
• Blind and low-vision users
• Motor impairment users
• Cognitive impairment users/learning difficulties
• Hearing impairment users
• Speech / Communication impairment users

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• ÆGIS Project at a Glance
• Summary (5)
• ÆGIS USERS
• 3) Indirectly, stakeholders who are engaged with
  the well-being of people with disabilities are
  involved, i.e.
• Care-givers
• Teachers // tutors// trainers
• Family members
• Public / private social security service
  providers
• Insurance companies
• Health care and emergency support service
  providers

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• ÆGIS Project at a Glance
• Summary (6)
• TARGET DOMAINS
• Desktop and mobile user agents and web browsers
• Web applications (with emphasis on rich Internet
  applications such as accessible applications,
  browsers, charts, drag-and-drop functionalities,
  etc.)
• Mobile applications and devices (e.g. smart
  phones, PDAs, etc.)
• Developer's tools
• Document authoring applications
• Communications products

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• ÆGIS Project at a Glance
• Summary (7)
• THE INNOVATION
• Open Accessibility Framework
• Open magnification architecture
• Real-time-text solutions across desktop mobile
  devices
• Accessibility testing regression harness for
  developers
• Accessible document production accessibility
  support
• Document creation accessibility support

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• ÆGIS Project at a Glance
• Summary (8)
• PILOT DEMONSTRATORS
• Four distinct pilots are planned in Belgium,
  Spain, Sweden, and the UK.
• Each pilot will undertake evaluation in 3
  phases
• trials and mock-upsp
• early prototypes
• and final prototypes.
• The pilots aim to involve vision, mobility,
  cognitive, hearing and speech impaired people, as
  well as experts in the field, tutors and other
  facilitators and developers.
• All feedback received from each of the 3
  evaluation. All evaluation phases will be fed
  back into the development process that will take
  place in the project period following each
  evaluation phase.

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• Time 14.15 14.30
• ÆGIS Technical Presentation
• By Mr. Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems)
• Summary (1)
• Urgency
• In every second
• 4 babies are born
• 36 cell phones are activated
• 411 web pages are created
• 1.3 billion cell phones were sold in 2008
• 12.8 billion new web pages appeared in 2008
• Google indexes over 1 trillion web pages. How
  many are accessible? How many in 2009? 2012?

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• ÆGIS Technical Presentation
• By Mr. Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems)
• Summary (2)
• 1st Generation Accessibility late 1960s, 1970s,
  early 1980s
• Blind access with speech, Optacon
• Low vision access via special hardware
• Early Braille printers
• Talking calculators

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• ÆGIS Technical Presentation
• By Mr. Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems)
• Summary (3)
• 1st Generation Limitations
• Options expensive, difficult to use (like
  Optacon)
• Computing limits restricted what users could do
  only job access
• Only web, no online books
• Very few disabilities were served

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• ÆGIS Technical Presentation
• By Mr. Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems)
• Summary (4)
• 2nd Generation Accessibilitylate 1980s, 1990s,
  early 2000s
• Software TTS (Text to Speech), access to the GUI
  (Graphic User Interface), scripting
• Software magnification
• Voice recognition, OCR (Optical Character
  Recognition, etc.)
• WYNN, TextHelp, other LD products

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• ÆGIS Technical Presentation
• By Mr. Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems)
• Summary (5)
• 3rd Generation Accessibility 1997 and onward
• Access by Contract Engineered Accessibility
• Every UI element implements it
• Everything needed by all AT provided
• Rich, extensible, flexible, powerful

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• ÆGIS Technical Presentation
• By Mr. Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems)
• Summary (5)
• 3rd Generation Accessibility 1997 and onward
• Access by Contract Engineered Accessibility
• Every UI element implements it
• Everything needed by all AT provided
• Rich, extensible, flexible, powerful

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• ÆGIS Technical Presentation
• By Mr. Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems)
• Summary (6)
• Open Accessibility Framework
• Framework ? approach to the problem
• Answers what needs to be done, when, how?
• Contextualizes those answers to existing ICT
  environments (desktop, web, mobile)
• Builds upon knowledge we have today (in desktop,
  web) that we build in ÆGIS
• As much as possible implemented open source (to
  aid in dissemination, affordability, etc.)
• Will be developed in AEGIS, proven in AEGIS

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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, London, UK
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Time 910 935 EU Policies on eINCLUSION
By Mr. Miguel Gonzalez-Sancho (European
Commission, ICT for Inclusion, Information
Society Media Directorate General)
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• EU Policies on eINCLUSION
• By Mr. Miguel Gonzalez-Sancho
• Summary (1)
• eInclusion_at_EU project ended in the beginning of
  2007. It was set up to support Information
  Society policy-making in the European Union by
• initiating a Europe-wide dialogue among those
  working for an accessible and inclusive
  Information Society
• establishing a knowledge base that will provide a
  resource on key eInclusion and eAccessibility
  policies and practice.
• Against this background, the focus was on three
  eInclusion themes as follows
• eAccessibility as a component of eInclusion
• eInclusion in relation to work and employment
• eInclusion in relation to online services.
• Read more from http//www.einclusion-eu.org/Docume
  nt.asp?MenuID123

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• Time 15.30 15.45
• Kick off of Open Accessibility Everywhere Group
  (OAEG)
• By Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris (CERTH-HIT)
• Summary (1)
• What is OAEG?
• OAEG stands for Open Accessibility Everywhere
  Group.
• It is a web-based attempt of our project to
  communicate and exchange views with you.
• On which issues?
• Everything that deals with Open Source
  Accessibility and beyond worldwide

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Time 15.30 15.45 Kick off of Open
Accessibility Everywhere Group (OAEG) By Dr.
Evangelos Bekiaris (CERTH-HIT) Summary
(2) Mission Statement The Open Accessibility
Everywhere Group (OAEG) is a coordinated effort
of the AEGIS Consortium, which aims to bring
together all open source accessibility
communities, as well as the techniques and
approaches they use. Thus, the OAEG anticipates
to be the community of the communities in the
open accessibility world.
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