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/