Seminário DI-FCUL/LASIGE

Challenges and Opportunities in Accessibility Research

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17/07/2012

Chieko Asakawa
IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for Accessibility Research and Technology
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=jp-CHIE
IBM Research - Tokyo
Yamato, Japan

Hironobu Takagi
Senior Researcher, Leading accessibility research group
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=jp-TAKAGIH
IBM Research - Tokyo
Yamato, Japan

Abstract:

Accessibility technologies have been empowering people with disabilities for education and work and in their daily lives by providing access to massive information resources and various online services, which are often inaccessible in the physical world. IBM Research has played an important role in this evolution since the early days of personal computers. In this presentation, they will first give an overview of the history, and introduce some of the contributions their team was involved in, such as IBM Hope Page Reader, aDesigner, and ai-Browser. They will also emphasize the importance of open computing with examples of our contributions to Eclipse.org. The Social Accessibility project is an approach to improve Web accessibility by gathering users’ voices and crowd-sourcing strategy.

The system involves integrating Web accessibility technologies with social computing technologies. The project opened up the new era of "crowd accessibility". They will conclude their speech with the revolutionary expansion of accessibility technologies for larger groups who can benefit from accessibility technologies, such as senior citizens and semi-literates.

Organização

Departamento de Informática / LASIGE - Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala

Website

http://lasige.di.fc.ul.pt/Main_Page

Localização

Anfiteatro da Fundação da FCUL, Lisboa

Horário

10h30