Assistive Technology and Education Mrs. G. Bacal
GuidelinesDesigned for people who struggle to learn
for different reasons, such as: learning disabilities,emotional and behavioral problems, lack of interest, sensory and physical disabilities
World Wide Web Consortium Guidelines
http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/#1gl
Devices That Assist People WithVisual Disabilities
Speech is translated into textScreen readers for blind - reads aloud information
displayed on a computer screen including the files of world wide web
http://www.abilityhub.com/vision/blind/ Text readers- reads aloud text as it is keyboarded, and
text within documents such as e-mails, and word processing, for people with poor reading abilities or learning abilities
http://abilityhub.com/vision/index/Software : Natural speaking v7.0 create documents,
surf the web, writing letters by using words QPointer - voice recognition software using
GUI interface
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE FOR VOICE ANIMATION
http://www.abilityhub.com/hearing/index.htm
JAWS for Windows 6.2 - enhanced software with speech synthesizer and computer's sound cards allowing the information from the screen to be read aloud and providing Braille displays
http://atestore.enablemart.com/productDetail.aspx?pid=483&dept=12&store=10=12&store=10
NextTalk VMTM – a personal communicator software thatuse compatible voice modems to make and receive TTY calls http://www.nxicom.com/products-caser/nextalk_vm.html
SOFTWARE FOR NON-SPEAKING INDIVIDUALS
EZ KEYS – time saver including word prediction and abbreviations
http://abilityhub.com/speech-software.htm
TALKING SCREEN designed for individuals who prefer pictures and symbols to communicate
http://www.gearheadforhire.com/gearvox/screens.php SPEAKING DYNAMICALY PRO – programs using
access methods such as touch-screen, joystick trackball, head pointing using built-in scanning methods
FRS HEAD POINTERhttp://www.frs-solutions.com/product_pages/frs_custom_sol_pages/frs_headpointer.htm
COMMUNICATION FOR PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
“hands –free control”of the computer and speech control of the software
SOFTWARE- Speech recognition allows dictating text that controls the software
http://abilityhub.com/speech/index.htm ACCESSORIES: Table Top Mounting System for
users to communicate while in wheelchair, recliner or bed
http://www.frs-solutions.com/product_pages/frs_custom_main.htm
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY for deaf and hard of hearing people – Speech is translated into texthttp://www.abilityhub.com/hearing/index.htm
SOFTWARE allow communication for people who communicate in sign languages
PERSONAL COMMUNICATOR – a user friendly program that use hypermedia technology to bring American Sign Language capabilities to the commuter's desktop
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/products/asl/index.html
DRAGON – create, edit and revise documents e-mail, and surf the Web by voice using web browsers
http://abilityhub.com/speech/speeechsoftware.htm
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR PEOPLE WITH COGNITIVE DISABILITIES
http://www.abilityhub.com/cognitive/index.htm
Devices designed to improve individual’s ability to access, process, or remember information
PEAT – program providing cueing for people with memory and attention disorders and traumatic brain injury
http://www.brainaid.com/
DEINED FEATURES THAT ACCOMMODATE ACCESSIBILITY
for people with learning disabilities, or a wide range of manual dexterities, visual, and physical problems
Solutions Digital talking book files, streams, transformation processes, and players, designed to make information available in different presentation modes including Braille, synthesized speech, large print with user specifiable size and text re-wrapping for players with visual disability, text and audio synchronization for people with learning disabilities.
XML The Extensive Markup Language
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-86-2002.HTML#xml
SMIL The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-86-2002.html#ref-smil
ALTERNATIVE WEB BROWSERS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
BRAILLE SURF http://www.snv.jussieu.fr/inova/bs4/uk/index.htm
Brookes Talk – software facilitating intelligentWeb search and enables speech outputhttp://cms.brookes.ac.uk/computing/speech/ EMAK SPEAK – software that enables full
web browsinghttp://emakspeak.sourceforge.net/
MARCO POLO – software that enables users with speech output, audio icons, and keyboard interfaces
http://webpresence.com/sonicon/marcopolo/
ACCESSIBILITY FOR GENERIC APPLICATIONS
SUCCESS CRYTERIA : The content must be perceivable, operable, robust for work, and the interface elements must be operable
WINDOWS XP increases visibility, color and size of icons and cursor’s blink rate
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windowsxp/default.aspx
OFFICE 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/office2003/default.aspx
ADOBE ACROBAT- software that enhances accessibility of electronic information and PDF files that allow adjustment to users’ preferences
http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/main.html
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY PROVIDING WEB BROWSERS SYSTEMS
Software which enhance voice-driven
navigation by allowing voice-in, voice-out, telephone-based web access, and by using “sycons’
for spoken selection of links
SpecHTML http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/1
ConversaWebhttp://www.speechtechnology.com/
otherspeech/conversaweb_n.html
THE ACCESLBILITY FEATURES OF A WEB SITE
GUIDELINES TO TEST A WEB SITE• Multiple means of representation would give
learners various ways of acquiring information
• Multiple means of expression would provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they know
http://www.casr.org/research/index.html Booby SITE 300 http://www.kurzweiledu.com/
METHODS FOR SITE VALIDATION for meaningfulness and applicability http://www.w3.org/