Internal:Accessibility hack-a-thon
The following is a list of products that have been proposed for the Accessibility Hackathon at DC Public Library on Nov 12, 2011.
1. Light weight version of Bookshare for BrailleNote users using the Bookshare API (http://developer.bookshare.org) 2. TTS Twitter client either using Chrome TTS APIs (http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tts.html). See example code at http://github.com/gcapiel/ChromeWebAppBookshareReader 3. Searchable Repository of 508 Technology Guides (see previous email from Jamal). Jamal would contribute zip of content. Could be done in Drupal or Wordpress. 4. Mobile Accesible Book Generator - Scan a book with your phone, type in, speech recognize or OCR the text, keep the images and output an RTF, DAISY 3 text (http://daisy.org), or EPUB version, which can be submitted to Bookshare and other repositories of accessible ebooks for people with print disabilities. Particularly useful for children's books which have few pages and words. 5. Mobile App that detects when the person in line in front of you has moved. One idea is to check when the iPhone camera comes out of focus. 6. Mobile color identifier that speaks a smaller set of colors (8 or 16?). 7. Accessible version of Tor 8. Accessible fork of privacy tools at http://guardianproject.info using Android's Accessibility APIs
9. Alphabetic keyboard for beginning level VoiceOver users. The QWERTY keyboard arrangement is a barrier for some users. 10. Facetime Audio description network. 11. Face-Name or Voice-Name recognition Quiz for social networks - a system that would train the user to associate either images of a face or recordings of a voice with the name of the person they belong to 12.
VoiceOver Math Equations Audio Description for Video Programming instead of audio track, have metadata - pause the screen and get an audio description, searchable
App for movie description via iPhone
a collection of inaccessible material made accessible using a mobile accessible format conversion station
Something that makes Twitter easier to read - automattically read a stream of information to you, using live regions ARIA Web App New Tweet comes in announces it automatically
Are there any apps that desperately need to be made accessible?
non visual mind mapping app -- structure information present non-visual trees, branching tree nodes, windows explorer folders, nested folders, tree control http://www.informationtamers.com/WikIT/index.php?title=Mind_mapping_for_people_who_are_blind
personal database to agragate infromation with text to speech tagging metadata customized sharing annotation audio close-captioning Beta Testing ad devolopment of Zaid Al Timimmi product, TheMashupApp, like EverNote but decentralized and granular
also twitter handle and website
aggragate multiple formats - not just files but pages of PDF on your device, not in the cloud. personal database to curate your memories and knowledge save first before you share Medical, legal, iep, etc manage home health care
audio description should be non linear, text to speech from educational point of view information tagged PDF tagged layers of information
QR codes used to put in an app or provide info to the iPhone add contacts to your iphone useful to blind community? QR code on movie ticket, push description to iPhone
embed in clothing, various object, specialized information, walking directions, signs specialized info pushed to iphone
tactile identification so you know where it is. Omni ID Mate
Accessible interface for STTS – Ustream
Captioning Adaptive Services program videos that are stored on Ustream
Dragon-recognize Victor-Streamed interviews from the beginning of Accessibility Camp
Work on an Accessible conferencing system
Find a place to host LibraryLab materials
Create Accessibility templates, wizards – Don Galloway