AEGIS presentation at DRT4ALL (by Karel Van Isacker - EPR)

AEGIS delivers
ÆGIS 1st pan European User
Mr. Karel Van Isacker
Forum & Workshop

EPR 4&5 June 2009

Research In Motion UK Ltd,
Slough, Berkshire,
United Kingdom

Project Coordinates
• Project Name: Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork,
Infrastructure, Standards
• Project Short Name: ÆGIS
• Contract: ÆGIS - FP7-224348
• Programme: 7th Framework-Programme
• Duration: 01 September 2008 – 31 August 2012, 48 Months
• Total Budget: € 12.600.861
• EC Requested Funding: €8.220.000
• Project Management Team:
– Coordinator: Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT), Centre for
Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)
– Technical Manager: ORACLE

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DRT4ALL 2011, ONCE, Madrid, 27/06/2011

Some facts
• A total EU population of 501 million*
• An estimated 45 million people in the EU have a
long-standing health problem or disability (LSHPD)**
• IMPORTANT: Different definitions of “disability” (6-
30% between the Member States)

* http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu, 1 July 2010
** Data extracted from the 2002 EU Labour Force
Survey (LFS) and the 2004 EU Statistics on Incomes
and Living Conditions

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Disability rates in working
population

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Fragmented AT market with a
complex buying process
• EU AT industry is complex and characterised by:
– a large number of products,
– a large number of SMEs,
– different service provider systems (public health systems, public social
systems, private organisations and associations dedicated to the AT sector)
that are used to get AT ICT products to the end-users with disabilities,
– and different reimbursement schemes by national and local authorities.
• Cause:
– Local legislation necessitates a customised approach (e.g. many different national and
local reimbursement schemes) ;
– AT ICT often developed in a local language, thus creating an important barrier between
the different country markets of the EU
– AT software products providers often very small, and have both a limited product
offering and geographical scope

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Purchase of AT by end-users
• The medical oriented model:
– Starting point is the handicap where the physician initiates necessary
procedures and must approve the need for listed and reimbursed AT
based on medical arguments.
• The social oriented model
– Based upon national legislation and local and decentralised execution,
and involves national/local agencies that coordinate the provision and
funding of AT, often also after the person with disability is evaluated by
a panel of medical experts (like in the medical oriented model) to
define the degree of disability, and the access to subsidies.
• The consumer oriented model:
– The end-user has direct contact with a retailer in order to get his/her
AT product (e.g. personal budget).

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Purchase of AT by end-users
APPLS FOR VOICE SOFTWARE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
HEARING AIDS BRAILLE READERS
COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEMS
AUSTRIA medical social social social social
BELGIUM medical social social social social
DENMARK social social social social social
FINLAND medical medical medical medical medical
FRANCE medical social consumer social + consumer social + consumer
GERMANY medical social social social social
GREECE medical consumer consumer consumer consumer
HUNGARY medical consumer consumer consumer consumer
IRELAND medical + consumer medical + consumer medical + consumer medical + consumer medical + consumer
ITALY medical medical medical medical social
NETHERLANDS medical social social social social
PORTUGAL medical consumer medical + social social + consumer consumer
SLOVAKIA medical social social social consumer
SLOVENIA medical medical medical social + consumer social + consumer
SPAIN medical * consumer social + consumer social + consumer social
SWEDEN medical medical medical medical medical
UK medical social social consumer social

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Current barriers
• Some recurring themes and arguments. Most important
problems with the use of AT are
– the lack of user awareness,
– the difficult access,
– the high purchasing costs,
– the mismatch between end-users needs and the offered AT.
• “Ignorance is bliss, but an abyss for impaired end-users”
– Basic functionalities like text messaging, sending emails or creating
documents are frequently used, but end-users still have to face many
barriers when trying to access these basic functionalities.
– Emphasizes the need for adequate training and instruction material on
how to use AT.

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AEGIS’ aim
•ÆGIS aims, through user research and prototype development with current
and next-generation ICT,
•to develop and validate the necessary infrastructure and accessibility
frameworks needed for deeply embedding accessibility into the desktop, cell
phone, PDA, and rich Internet applications;
•with a focus on the needs of users with mild, severe or complex disabilities
served via assistive technologies;
•and to propose these results to the appropriate standards organisations for
adoption, as well as to make them available through Open Source as much as
possible.

“Man on the moon” statement:
Make cell phone, PDA and rich Internet applications fully accessible by default,
and affordable applying an Open Source approach
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The Consortium
Beneficiary name Country
Center for Research & Technology Greece
Czech
ORACLE
Republic
Fundación Vodafone España Spain
University of Cambridge UK
AOL LLC UK
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der
Germany
angewandten Forschung e.V.
Nottingham Trent University UK
Singular Logic Greece
Czech
Czech Technical University
Republic
European Platform for Rehabilitation Belgium
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / Life
Spain
Supporting Technologies
ONCE Foundation Spain
Technosite Spain
Blue Point IT Solutions S.r.l. Romania
VASTRA GOTALANDS LANS LANDSTING Sweden
Femtioprocent Data AB Sweden
Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) -
Canada
Faculty of Design | OCAD University
Research In Motion Limited Canada

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The AEGIS Users
• Developers of ICT infrastructure, applications and services;
– AT developers/experts-Accessibility assessors
– Mainstream s/w developers/experts
– OS developers
– Web /Desktop/Mobile applications developers
• End-users; people with disabilities & elderly, experiencing one or more of the following
mild to severe impairments;
– Blind and low-vision users (partly sighted & fully blind)
– Motor impairment users (upper limbs) (dexterity difficulties or slight restriction on arms
or hands, moderate restriction on hand use, severe or complete restriction on hand use)
– Cognitive impairment users / learning difficulties (slight cognitive limitation and low
support need, moderate and severe cognitive limitation and medium and high support
need)
– Hearing impairment users (slight or moderate limitation, severe limitation or total
deafness)
– Speech / Communication impairment users (aphasia, loss of the ability to produce
and/or comprehend language, stuttering & dysarthria -motor speech disorder resulting
from neurological injury, characterised by poor articulation)

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The ÆGIS Stakeholders’ Groups
• Indirectly, stakeholders who are engaged with the well being
of people with disabilities are involved, i.e.:
– End-user organisations
• Disability Now, Werkgroep Vorming en Aktie, etc.
– Umbrella organisations
• EDF, VFG, KVG, etc.
– (Public / private social security) service providers
– (in)Formal Care-givers
– Teachers / tutors/ trainers
– Family members
– Insurance companies
– Health care and emergency support service providers
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Targeted domains
• Desktop and mobile user agents and web
browsers
• Web applications (with emphasis on rich
Internet applications, such as accessible
browsers, charts, drag-and-drop
functionalities,…)
• Mobile applications and devices (e.g. smart
phones, PDAs, etc.)
• Developer's tools
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The evolution of Assistive
Technology

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Technology
• 1st Generation
Accessibility: late 60-
70s, and early 80s
• Access to computers for
people with visual
impairments via speech
(Optacon applications)
• Visual impaired via
special hardware
• First Braille printers
• Speaking calculators

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Technology
• 2nd Generation
Accessibility: late 80-90s,
and early 2000
• Software TTS, access to
the GUI.
• Software driven
magnification.
• Speech Recognition, OCR
(Optical Character
Recognition).
• Specialised targeted
software for people with
learning difficulties.

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Technology
• 3rd Generation Accessibility:
started in 1997
• Every graphical element is
accessible (sound, image, etc.)
• Web accessibility; WCAG, UAAG,
ATAG, etc.
• Accessibility APIs
• Microsoft Office - MSAA
(Microsoft® Active Accessibility®),
add-on since Windows® 95, UI
Automation since Windows® Vista
• Apple Macintosh - Accessibility
APIs: supported by e.g. Carbon,
Cocoa
• Java platform - Java Accessibility
API: in Swing, Oracle UI toolkits,
others
• Already used by JAWS, ZoomText,
Virgo

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2nd generation vs. 3rd generation
Accessibility

Screen Scraping Open Desktop with OAF

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AEGIS application areas
Desktop accessibility: the AEGIS suit of tools Web application accessibility: the AEGIS RIA platform

Rich cell phone & PDA accessibility: the AEGIS mobile companion

Available on:
•Android market
•SourceForge
•Free download
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Rich cell phone & PDA
accessibility: the AEGIS mobile
companion

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And our results…
• Mobile applications (demos with me  )
• Dasher for Android / iPhone
• Accessible Contact Manager and Phone Dialer,
Java version - Android version
• Accessible RTT for mobile
• Tekla Onscreen Keyboard (and optionally Tekla
Bluetooth Shield)

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Mobile apps

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Desktop accessibility: the AEGIS
suit of tools

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And our results…
• Desktop applications
• Ubuntu/Fedora
• ORCA screenreader
• GnomeShell Magnifier
• OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice
• Concept Coding Framework for LibreOffice
• Accessibility Checker for LibreOffice
• Odt2braille
• Odt2daisy
• eSpeak TTS Engine (Language Enhancement)
• OpenGazer

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Web application accessibility:
the AEGIS RIA platform

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And our results…
• Rich internet applications
• Haptic RIA maps (CERTH-ITI)
• MooTools UI components
• Accessible jQueryUI Components
• WAIARIA implementation on UI toolkits
• CMS demonstrator
• Accessibility Advisor (CVUT)

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And some more results…
• Personas (AEGIS - 17 and ACCESSIBLE – 13
project)
• 30 in total under Creative Commons licence
• New ones will be created in context of VERITAS
project
• Developer tool plugins on accessibility
• E.g. NetBeans Plugin that helps developers with
creating ARIA

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Pilots in 3 iterative phases and 4
sites (1/2)
Pilot phase Swedish Pilot site UK Pilot Site Belgium Pilot site Spanish Pilot site
(SU-DART) (ACE, RNIB, NTU) (EPR, KUL) (UPM, FONCE)
Equipment per site  10 desktop stations with a mix of Windows, OpenSolaris, GNU/Linux, Macintosh, and thin-client systems
(usability labs)  10 PDAs with a mixture of CDC, CLDC, RIM Blackberry, and JavaFX Mobile
 10 mobile phones with a mixture of CDC, CLDC, RIM Blackberry, and JavaFX Mobile
 “Observer”, “Pocket observer”, or other professional s/w package for collection, analysis and presentation of user
actions on the pc and the nomad devices
 “uLog” or equivalent s/w for automatic recording of user interaction
 Stationary and mobile device cameras to capture user actions
Phase I: WoZ  10 cognitive impaired  10 blind/low vision  10 blind/low vision  10 blind/low vision
trials and mock-  10 motor impaired  10 motor impaired  10 motor impaired  10 motor impaired
ups (Month 16-18)  10 speech impaired  10 speech impaired  10 cognitive impaired  10 cognitive
 5 experts  5 experts  10 hearing impaired impaired
 5 tutors  5 tutors  10 speech impaired  10 hearing impaired
 5 experts  10 speech impaired
 5 tutors  5 experts
 5 tutors
Phase II: early  10 cognitive impaired  10 blind/low vision  10 blind/low vision  10 blind/low vision
prototypes  10 speech impaired  10 motor impaired  10 motor impaired  10 motor impaired
evaluation (Month  5 experts  10 speech impaired  10 cognitive impaired  10 cognitive
26-28)  5 tutors  5 experts  10 hearing impaired impaired
 5 developers  5 tutors  10 speech impaired  10 hearing impaired
 5 developers  5 experts  10 speech impaired
 5 tutors  5 experts
 5 developers  5 tutors
 5 developers

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Pilots in 3 iterative phases and 4
sites (2/2)
Pilot phase Swedish Pilot site UK Pilot Site Belgium Pilot site Spanish Pilot site
(SU-DART) (ACE, RNIB, NTU) (EPR, KUL) (UPM, FONCE)

Phase III: final  20 cognitive impaired  20 blind/low vision  20 blind/low vision  20 blind/low vision
prototypes  20 speech impaired  20 motor impaired  20 motor impaired  20 motor impaired
evaluation (Month  10 experts  20 speech impaired  20 cognitive impaired  20 cognitive impaired
36-38)  10 tutors  10 experts  20 hearing impaired  20 hearing impaired
 5 developers  10 tutors  20 speech impaired  20 speech impaired
 5 developers  10 experts  10 experts
 10 tutors  10 tutors
 5 developers  5 developers

Demonstration  ~100 users, experts, tutors  20 blind/low vision  20 blind/low vision  20 blind/low vision
(Month 30-39) and developers)  20 motor impaired  20 motor impaired  20 motor impaired
 20 speech impaired  20 cognitive impaired  20 cognitive impaired
 10 experts  20 hearing impaired  20 hearing impaired
 10 tutors  20 speech impaired  20 speech impaired
 5 developers  10 experts  10 experts
 10 tutors  10 tutors
 5 developers  5 developers

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Forthcoming final workshop and
conference
• 28-30 November 2011
• Brussels, Belgium
• www.aegis-conference.eu
• Free access, but registration obligatory as
placed are limited

• More relevant events are announced via
www.accessforall.eu portal.

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Contact us via:
- aegis@epr.eu
- twitter.com/aegisproj (also
via Accessible Twitter)
- www.aegis-project.eu

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