Tag Archives: accessibility

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY I2Web is a research project that aims to enable an accessible Future Internet for people with special needs (especially people with disabilities and older adults). From a socio-economic standpoint accessibility and usability issues are becoming critical, considering the demographic change worlwide. For instance, according to the UN 2006 Revision of World Population Prospects, [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY Given the development of library information systems inRomaniaand the development of virtual libraries in Europe at project starting date, the project proposed, for the first time inRomaniato setup a national system for information and documentation in science and technology based on the principle of virtual library catalogue. The design of the system was [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY The project aims to develop a content delivery platform for mobile devices optimized for live and recorded video content, including live user generated content (UGC) from mobile devices. fullXS is an open platform, which enables anyone with basic online experience to create a mobile content service and deploy it to various mobile platforms. [...]

_____________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY RoboBraille solves a universal problem regarding usability – the service makes otherwise inaccessible electronic documents accessible to people with visual or reading impairments. It is an e-mail service which can convert digital text documents into either Braille or audio files. Translation processes which traditionally take a long time, making the user reliant on [...]