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Title: Designing a future that is more accessible to all humans and machines: An Overview of Projects at th


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Designing a future that is more accessible to all
humans and machines An Overview of Projects at
the Trace R D Center
  • Trace RD Center
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison

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What is Trace
  • R D Center on Technology and Disability
  • Funded by
  • National Institute on Disability and
    Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • 2 Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers
  • on Access to Information Technologies
  • on Telecommunication Access (joint with
    Gallaudet Univ.)
  • Part of the NCSA Alliance, and EOT, of the
    NSF-PACI

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Focus
  • 30 Years old
  • Focus has evolved from
  • 70s - Augmentative Communication
  • 80s - Computer Access
  • 90s - Universal Design of Information Tech
    Telecom
  • 00s - Virtual services, pluggable interfaces,
  • extended usability of mainstream
    technologies,
  • machine access and human augmentation.

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Trace developments are built into a wide range of
commercial products .
  • - Computers - Kiosks - Operating systems -
    Voice access systems - ATMs - Network
    technologies - Fare Machines - Web technologies
    - Point of Sale Machines - New document
    technologies - PDAs - Multimedia
    technologies - Voting - etc.

5
Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features

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Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features
  • StickyKeys
  • MouseKeys
  • Etc

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Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features
  • StickyKeys
  • MouseKeys
  • Etc
  • Now ON by default

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Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features
  • StickyKeys
  • MouseKeys
  • Etc
  • Now ON by default

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Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features
  • StickyKeys
  • MouseKeys
  • Etc
  • Now ON by default
  • Mac OS (since 1980s)
  • OS 3 up
  • OS-X

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Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features
  • StickyKeys
  • MouseKeys
  • Etc
  • Now ON by default
  • Mac OS (since 1980s)
  • OS 3 up
  • OS-X

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Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features
  • StickyKeys
  • MouseKeys
  • Etc
  • Now ON by default
  • Mac OS (since 1980s)
  • OS 3 up
  • OS-X

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Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features
  • StickyKeys
  • MouseKeys
  • Etc
  • Now ON by default
  • Mac OS (since 1980s)
  • OS 3 up
  • OS-X

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Computers / OSs
  • Windows 95/98/NT/2000XP
  • 9 Trace Access features
  • StickyKeys
  • MouseKeys
  • Etc
  • Now ON by default
  • Mac OS (since 1980s)
  • OS 3 up
  • OS-X

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Computers / OSs (contd)
  • LARS (Linux Accessibility Resource Site)
  • www.trace.wisc.edu/LARS
  • In collaboration with JP Schnapper-Casteras
  • To support the Open Source work in this area
  • Also providing support for the CSUN collaboration
    meeting of the group

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Commercial Touch Screen Kiosks (Cross-Disability
Accessible)
  • Low Vision
  • Blindness
  • Hard of Hearing
  • Deaf
  • Physical
  • Cognitive
  • Language
  • Reading
  • Mall of America
  • Airports
  • Knight Ridder News
  • Smithsonian

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ATMs
Discoverability Obviousness
Trace Center Prototype
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Public Info Transaction Tech
Natural Accessibility
Viking Building Entry System
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Voting Systems
New Prototype
Invisible, obvious, natural
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Phones
  • Mass Market Features that expand usability to
    those operating under constraints

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Webmaster Tools / Toolkit
  • Supported financially / collaborated withthe
    efforts of 5 other programs working Web tools
  • Tools to facilitate the creation of accessible
    web content.
  • 3 of the tools have been released (and are
    available for free download).
  • A-Prompt (Toronto)
  • Magpie (WGBH)
  • Extension of Bobby
    (CAST)
  • A fourth is under development at a sister
    university.
  • MS Office to accessible Web content Tool (Univ
    of Ill.)
  • A 5th is being explored - ( to be announced)

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W3C Web Content Guidelines
  • WCAG 1.0 grew out of Trace CentersUnified
    Guidelines on Web Accessibility
  • Trace Center Contributions
  • Co-Chair of working group
  • 2 of the editors
  • Used as basis for 508

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Web Content Accessibility
  • Same requirements as Mobile Computing (1999)
  • Best guidelines for making content work with web
    enabled phones (2000)
  • WCAG 2.0
  • Perceivable
  • Operable
  • Navigable
  • Understandable
  • Robust

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Web Content Accessibility
  • Same requirements as Mobile Computing (1999)
  • Best guidelines for making content work with web
    enabled phones (2000)
  • WCAG 2.0
  • Perceivable
  • Operable
  • Navigable
  • Understandable
  • Robust
  • .. By those with who cannot see,
    hear, move or think as well as a
    fully able bodied human

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Web Content Accessibility
  • Same requirements as Mobile Computing (1999)
  • Best guidelines for making content work with web
    enabled phones (2000)
  • WCAG 2.0
  • Perceivable
  • Operable
  • Navigable
  • Understandable
  • Robust
  • .. By those with who cannot see,
    hear, move or think as well as a
    fully able bodied human
  • Same requirements as we need for machine / agent
    access (2005???)

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Current Trace Programs
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Current Trace Programs
  • About 20 - 30 interface, information and
    interoperability projects in Telecom and IT
  • Industry and government forums and policy work
  • National and International
  • Industry standards work
  • Information outreach and Training programs
  • Graduate and post-graduate
  • Industry
  • BUT NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT ALL THESE

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Like to focus on a couple that might be of most
interest to AG participants
  • Extended usability interfaces
  • Use mainstream products under constrained
    conditions
  • Universal interfaces
  • Carry your favorites or familiar one(s) around
    with you.
  • Virtual interfaces
  • or just call them from the ether when you need
    them
  • User Interface sockets
  • and have them work with whatever technology or
    device you encounter.
  • Networked services on demand
  • Access any information convert any information
    - or get help with anything anywhere..
  • Machine operable world
  • Let an agent do the work for you Just tell it
    what you want.

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Explore these by looking at some pieces then
putting them together
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Personal Services on Demand
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Companion
  • Trace and Aging RERC

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Ability for Users to have Personal Interfaces
to Standard Products or Services
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1 - Person cannot use interface on product
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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1 - Person cannot use interface on product
But has alternate keyboard they can use
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1 - Person cannot use interface on product
But has alternate keyboard they can use
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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2 - Person cannot use interface on product
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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2 - Person cannot use interface on product
but has alternate interface device
(like a Braille Lite, Braille Note,
or Aug Com Device etc.)
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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2 - Person cannot use interface on product
but has alternate interface device
(like a Braille Lite, Braille Note, or Aug
Com Device etc.)
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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Braille Note
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3 - Person cannot use interface on product
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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3 - Person cannot use interface on product
but has a card or device that describes
their abilities OR their preferences.
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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3 - Person cannot use interface on product
but has a card or device that describes
their abilities OR their preferences.
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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4 - Person cannot use interface on product .
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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4 - Person cannot use interface on product but
they could if new interface software could be
located or created for them and loaded into the
product.
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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4 - Person cannot use interface on product but
they could if new interface software could be
located or created for them and loaded into the
product.
Interface Hardware
Function Software
Interface Software
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Universal Remote Console Project
  • Goal Develop a standard mechanism for
    controlling mainstream products/services from
    remote consoles
  • Remote consoles could be mainstream or AT
  • Mainstream benefit is key
  • Difficulty cross-disability accessible

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Universal Remote Console
  • What if anyone
  • could control any device

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Universal Remote Console
  • What if anyone
  • could control any device

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Universal Remote Console
  • What if anyone
  • could control any device
  • from anywhere
  • using whatever device was handy.

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Universal Remote Console
  • What if anyone
  • could control any device
  • from anywhere
  • using whatever device was handy.

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INCITS and V2
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INCITS V2 (ANSI)
  • V2 is a technical committee at the International
    Committee for Information Technology Standards
  • Members are from user groups, industry,
    government, and academia

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V2 Working Group Members
  • ATT
  • American Federation of the Blind
  • Compaq Computer Corp.
  • Dept. of Commerce
  • Altarum
  • GSA
  • IBM
  • CIBER
  • Microsoft
  • National Industries for the Blind
  • Oracle
  • RERC on Comm Enhancement
  • Share Inc.
  • Sun Microsystems
  • The Mitre Corporation
  • The International Center for Disability Resources
    on the Internet
  • Trace RD Center, U of Wisc
  • Unisys Corporation
  • Xerox

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What is the AIAP-URCUniversal Remote Console?
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A Flexible User Interface Model
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Based on Existing Standard Technologies
  • Extended Markup Language (XML)
  • Universal Plug and Play (UPnP Microsoft)
  • Java / Jini (Sun)
  • HAVi
  • TCP/IP
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
  • WSDL
  • 802.11b (Wireless Ethernet)
  • Bluetooth

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V2 Prototyping at Trace
  • Supporting the V2 standardization effort by
  • Writing code and building physical prototypes
    necessary to explore the proposed ideas for the
    standard.
  • Identifying potential problems in the emerging
    standard, and proposing solutions to the V2
    technical committee.
  • Soliciting early user feedback on real-life
    implementations.
  • Providing proof-of-concept implementations for
    the standard.

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V2 and Web Services
  • Access to Web services via mobile devices
  • Unified access to electronic devices and Web
    services via URC
  • Collaborating with W3C on pertinent technologies
  • SOAP
  • WSDL
  • UDDI
  • XForms
  • XSD
  • Toward a new generation of (distributed) AT

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Pulling it together
  • Extended usability interfaces
  • Use mainstream products under constrained
    conditions
  • Universal interfaces
  • Carry your favorites or familiar one(s) around
    with you.
  • Virtual interfaces
  • or just call them from the ether when you need
    them
  • User Interface sockets
  • and have them work with whatever technology or
    device you encounter.
  • Networked services on demand
  • Access any information convert any information
    - or get help with anything anywhere..
  • Machine operable world
  • Let an agent do the work for you Just tell it
    what you want.

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Work supported by National Institute on
Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
U S Department of Education National
Science Foundation Microsoft
Corporation Sun Microsystems U S
Access Board Other contributors
  • Thank you

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Collaborators
  • Major Collaborations Related to Web Accessibility
    RD
  • Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World
    Wide Web Consortium (Massachusetts Institute of
    Technology).
  • Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (University
    of Toronto).
  • CPB/WGBH National Center on Accessible Media.
  • Center for Advanced Special Technology (CAST).
  • Information Technology Program (University of
    Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
  • Major Collaborations Related to Interoperability
    and Modality Translation RD
  • INCITS V2 Working Group.
  • Microsoft Corporation.
  • Sun Microsystems.
  • National Computational Science Alliance (Univ. of
    Illinois - Champaign-Urbana).
  • Gallaudet University, Technology Access Program.
  • Major Collaborations on Interface RD
  • Aging Technology RERC (Univ. of Florida).
  • Quad Media.
  • Election Systems Software.
  • VoteHere.
  • isSound (formerly Productivity Works, Inc.).
  • NCR.
  • Viking Electronics and Smith-Kettlewell RERC.
  • Compaq Computer.
  • U.S. Postal Service.
  • Other Major Collaborations
  • Information Technology Technical Assistance
    Training Center (Georgia Institute of
    Technology).
  • The Accessibility Forum.
  • U.S. Access Board.
  • Center for Universal Design (North Carolina
    State Univ.).
  • COST219bis.
  • Texas Electronic Textbook Project.
  • Computers to Help People, Inc.
  • TeleRehab RERC (Catholic University).
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