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Enabled Project: Empowering Access for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Explore cutting-edge developments in network technology to enhance web and mobile accessibility for visually impaired individuals. The project aims to provide innovative solutions such as screen magnification, speech synthesis, and Braille displays for improved information access.

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Enabled Project: Empowering Access for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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  1. ENABLED Enhanced Network Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired Tim Pennick British Telecommunications Plc

  2. Queen’s University of Belfast United Kingdom Fundación LABEIN Spain Lunds Universitet Sweden Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France Tekever, lda Portugal Siemens Germany Kuratorium OFFIS e.V. Germany NetUnion Switzerland British Telecommunications Plc United Kingdom Soluziona Telecomunicaciones Spain CAS Software AG Germany Scalab Italy F.H. Papenmeier Germany ENABLED Project Partners

  3. 4 RTD work packages: Accessible Web Content Multi-Modal Adaptive Interfaces Mobile Computing Wireless Networking Supported by: User Evaluation Training Dissemination, Exploitation Project management WP9 Project Management WP7 Dissemination WP1 Accessible Web contents WP2 Adaptive interfaces WP3 Mobile computing WP4 Wireless networking WP8 Exploitation WP5 User Trial and Evaluation WP6 User Training Work Packages

  4. Information now “ubiquitous” and plentiful Leading edge developments in many areas of network technology sometimes impede access to the potentially most useful services. Accessibility Paradox

  5. Enhance access to the web Enhance access to information on the move Customised Web Services Information Policy Manager IP transport network Mobile and wireless Desktop and fixed network User ENABLED aims to:

  6. Screen magnification (for people with some residual vision) Speech synthesis (cheap and readily available) Braille display Hard-copy embossed Braille (can be used for some types of images) Currently available interfaces

  7. PHANToM OmniFF: 3 DoF Novel interfaces • Force-feedback Haptic devices • Spatial Audio • Data Sonification Audio maps

  8. Requirements for Improved Web Access • Games • Images • graphs • Maps • 3-D objects

  9. 1. Navigation 2. Programmable 3. Reroutable 4. Take me home 5. Obstacle Avoidance 6. Traffic Lights 7. Emergency Communications 8. Timetables 9. Orientation 10. Implicit Requirements for Mobile Computing

  10. Mobile Computing Requirements filtered for Technical Feasibility 1. GPS 2. Orientation 3. Points Of Interest 4. Alternative Interfaces 5. In-door and out-door operation

  11. Current Status • Prototypes produced • 18 month review

  12. The Future • Integration of prototypes • Evaluation • Training

  13. Questions and answers Thank you for your time and interest in our project

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