Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure: Making Progress Cognitive WAI March 2014

WHY create a GPII ? What is the problem? 1.Solutions don’t exist for everyone 2.Some can’t afford solutions that are good enough to work with newer technologies 3.Solutions are too complicated 4.Even when a fit does exist – people can’t find it 5.Solutions don’t work across all of the different platforms/devices that people encounter and have to use

What is the GPII ? An infrastructure that does 3 things 1.Makes it easy to find out what things will help a person to use digital interfaces (and stores the information in the cloud) 2.Invokes those features on any device the person encounters, anywhere, anytime. 3.Makes it easier and less expensive to create, market and support new solutions, internationally

What does this look like? First, a person finds what works for them…

…and stores in the cloud

Developers create solutions and store them in the cloud

When person encounters a device – it looks up what they need

And an interface they can’t use…

Becomes one they can

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DEMO of GPII Auto-Personalization

Who is building the GPII? A consortium of over 50 companies and organizations in over a dozen countries –(the Raising the Floor Consortium) Under funding from Canada, Europe and the US –Governments, Foundations, Industry, and Partners

What makes it work? Helping users find out what will help them… Providing access instantly, anywhere, on any device Making it easier, lower-cost to create & market new solutions Cloud4all US Dept of Ed User Awareness Needs & Prefs Discovery Aid Shopping Aid Needs & Prefs Storage GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace Users find out something exists for them. Users can find out which types of things help them Users can store needs & preferences info for later use Find all solutions, AT & Mainstream Device / feature / Service Users can use their profile to find just what helps them Find all solutions, AT & Mainstream device / feature / service GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace User Awareness Users find out something exists for them. Needs & Prefs Discovery Aid Users can find out which types of things help them Needs & Prefs Storage Users can store needs & preferences info for later use Shopping/ Alerting Aid Users can use their profile to find just what helps them UIITA-RERC GPII Library Implementation PROSPERITY 4 ALL Prefs & Perm Server Real Time Matching Media & Materials Assistance on Demand (AOD) User needs & prefs stored securely and available anywhere Prefs and context used to determine best fit; here, now. Auto- augmentation transformation and/or replacement User can call up any assistance anywhere Delivery/Launch Management Built-in + AT are auto-adjusted and launched, anywhere Prefs & Perm Server User needs & prefs stored securely and available anywhere Real Time Matching Prefs and context used to determine best fit; here, now. Delivery/Launch Management Built-in + AT are auto-adjusted and launched, anywhere User can call up any assistance anywhere Assistance on Demand (AOD) Media & Materials Auto- augmentation transformation and/or replacement Developers’ Space GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace Free & commercial parts to speed dev, and lower costs Developers can quickly, efficiently market worldwide Consumers & Experts Connection Experts, consumers, testers etc to help new developers Micro-Finance Micro-Payment Infrastructure Mechanism for Financing R&D and Service Del Service Creation Tools To make it easy to Create AOD, Media, & Material service Developers’ Space Free & commercial parts to speed dev, and lower costs Consumers & Experts Connection Experts, consumers, testers etc to help new developers Micro-Finance Micro-Payment Infrastructure Mechanism for Financing R&D and Service Del GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace Developers can quickly, efficiently market worldwide Service Creation Tools To make it easy to Create AOD, Media, & Material service Fluid/Floe

GPII Test Implementations By AT Companies, Mainstream Companies & R&D Orgs Operating Systems – including Windows, Linux, and Android Browsers – including IE, Firefox and Chrome Phones – Smartphones (Android) and Simple Feature Phones Embedded Devices – Kiosk, Train Ticket Machine, PixelSense Home – DTV, Smart house simulation Web Apps – Online Banking Simulation, Social Network Web/server based AT – WebAnywhere, SAToGo, Browsealoud Installed AT – NVDA, ReadWrite Gold, SuperNova, Maavis Phone AT – Mobile Accessibility, eCtouch/eCmobile,

Behind the Scenes Working mainstream standards efforts –ePub –Indie UI User Context seeding use case for user preferences Developer tools …

Conclusion GPII is on track to complete its development What then? –already working on implementation & sustainability AT implementations Windows, Linux, Android platforms Library Implementation underway What does GPII mean to you?

Thank you gpii.net raisingthefloor.org This work was funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Dept of Education under Grants H133E (RERC-IT) and H133E (UIITA-RERC) and contract ED-OSE-12-D-0013 (Preferences for Global Access), by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) grant agreement (Cloud4all) and (Prosperity4All), by the Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation By contributions from Adobe Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Association Foundation, IBM, Microsoft, and all of the Partners The opinions and results herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the funding agencies.