1. Tim Pennick British Telecommunications Plc
ENABLED Enhanced Network Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Tim Pennick
British Telecommunications Plc

2. ENABLED Project Partners
Queen’s University of Belfast United Kingdom
Fundación LABEIN Spain
Lunds Universitet Sweden
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique France
Tekever, lda Portugal
Siemens Germany
Kuratorium OFFIS e.V. Germany
NetUnion Switzerland
British Telecommunications Plc United Kingdom
Soluziona Telecomunicaciones Spain
CAS Software AG Germany
Scalab Italy
F.H. Papenmeier Germany

3. Work Packages 4 RTD work packages: Supported by:
Accessible Web Content
Multi-Modal Adaptive Interfaces
Mobile Computing
Wireless Networking
Supported by:
User Evaluation
Training
Dissemination,
Exploitation
Project management
WP2 Adaptive interfaces
WP3 Mobile computing
WP4 Wireless networking
WP5
User Trial and Evaluation
WP7
Dissemination
WP6
User Training
WP8
Exploitation
WP9 Project Management
WP1 Accessible Web contents

4. Accessibility Paradox
Information now “ubiquitous” and plentiful
Leading edge developments in many areas of network technology sometimes impede access to the potentially most useful services.

5. Desktop and fixed network
ENABLED aims to:
Enhance access to the web
Enhance access to information on the move
Information
Customised Web
Services
IP transport network
Desktop and fixed network
Mobile and wireless
Policy Manager
User

6. Currently available interfaces
Screen magnification (for people with some residual vision)
Speech synthesis (cheap and readily available)
Braille display
Hard-copy embossed Braille (can be used for some types of images)

7. Novel interfaces Force-feedback Haptic devices Spatial Audio
PHANToM Omni FF: 3 DoF
Force-feedback Haptic devices
Spatial Audio
Data Sonification
Audio maps

8. Requirements for Improved Web Access
Games
Images
graphs
Maps
3-D objects

9. Requirements for Mobile Computing
1. Navigation
2. Programmable
3. Reroutable
4. Take me home
5. Obstacle Avoidance
6. Traffic Lights
7. Emergency Communications
8. Timetables
9. Orientation
10. Implicit

10. Mobile Computing Requirements filtered for Technical Feasibility
1. GPS
2. Orientation
3. Points Of Interest
4. Alternative Interfaces
5. In-door and out-door operation

11. Current Status
Prototypes produced
18 month review

12. The Future
Integration of prototypes
Evaluation
Training

13. Questions and answers
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