Table of Gaps - Solutions for End-to-End accessibility

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Last updated: Oct 28, 2009Version comment
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Master table of technology gaps/needs

Gap/Need

Existing solution?

Development funding

Hardening funding

Deployment

PDF viewing

Evince, kinda...
GnuPDF
Adobe Acrobat

needed
Project GNU
needed

needed

 

Speech recognition engine

Sphinx
HTK
Dragon/Wine

CMU (more needed)
?

needed

 

Speech recognition AT

XVoice
SpeechButtons type stuff
[a real app needed here]

 

 

 

DAISY viewer

AnyDAISY
emerson-reader
AMIS

Mozilla to Benetech (in good shape)
(google-code project)
?

 


Input drivers: head tracking
and Eye tracking

MouseTrap
OpenGazer

... (some HFOS)
AEGIS

 

 

Input drivers: switch

OpenGazer
XInput2 / USB HID

AEGIS

 

 

Input drivers: multi-touch



 

 

Closed Captioned player
(Note Internet Caption Forum)

MPlayer?
Totem
VLC
Web-based player(s)

 

 

 

Closed Caption authoring

Web-based authoring tool

 

 

 

Descriptive Video playback

MPlayer?
Totem
VLC
Web-based player(s)

 

 

 

OCR
(also handwriting)

Tesseract?
... ?

 

 

 

AAC

TBD

AEGIS

 

 

LD solutions

CCF in OOo
Orca (plus scripts)
...more?

AEGIS

 

 

TTS - "for screen reading"
(formant based)

eSpeak

AEGIS (more needed)

 

 

TTS - "for book reading"
(concatenative based)

 

 

 

 

Speech API

SpeechDispatcher

 

 

 

Braile transcription

OOo + plugin TBD
DOTS
TurboBraille
NFBTrans
liblouis (library)

AEGIS (more may be needed)
unfunded

 

 

Braille embossing

4 CUPS drivers from ONCE
John Gardener has something?

 

 

 

Accessible presentations

OOo Impress
PDF Viewer

 

 

 

Magnification & visual transformations

GNOMEShell

AEGIS (more needed)

 

 

Personalization

 

 

 

 

GNOME Theme editor
(simple one)

 

 

 

 

Access to Java apps

 

AEGIS + Sun

 

 

GNOME on small devices

AT-SPI over DBUS

 

 

 

Dev Tools to create a11y apps

Eclipse
NetBeans

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accessible applications needed 

  • Skype
  • Flash-like tool
  • Professional accounting packages (particularly web based)
  • Home finance apps (GNUCash)
  • Mathematica equivalent, Mathlab [obvious candidate for cloud/web]

Beyond the code

  • Training on how to use the various AT, how to use GNOME
  • Out of the box - booting, login, install
  • Getting the word out (spreading the gospel)
  •  

Solution domains

Education / cirriculum

Book authoring (e.g. textbooks)

  • Accessible OpenOffice.org
  • odt2daisy plugin to OOo
  •  

Educational software authoring / use

  • PDF viewing
  • Flash accessibility

Book / media delivery

  • DAISY player
  • CC in media player
  • Descriptive Video in media player

Courses delivery

  •  

User at home (connecting to broadband)

General home/broadband requirements (common to all below)

  • AT of all sorts
  • Browser support
  • Accessible media
  • OCR

e-Government

  • On-line tax preparation
  • Reading whitehouse.gov, recovery.gov, etc.

Self-employed (small business)

  • Small/personal applications (e.g. GNUCash)
  •  

Industries / Employment (vertical markets for employment)

Banking / financial instutions

... in call centers

... in XX

  • Professional accounting software (particularly web-based)
  • Imaging (OCR)

Software development

Healthcare

Insurance companies

eCommerce (public facing businesses)

... running on mobile devices

  • Accessible banking services

Proposal(s) - for funding, for ...

NPII ...

EC and access via mobile devices

Ford Foundation

MacArthur Foundation

Gates Foundation