[AG-TECH] Accessibilty Evaluation of the AG2.2

[Tom Coffin]

During the week of June 28th, 2004, The National Center for Supercomputing
Applications ACCESS facility (NCSA-ACCESS) hosted two National Science
Foundation (NSF) interns, Mr. Min Li and Mr. Charles McLennan. The two
interns are a part of the AAPD (American Association for Persons with
Disabilities)/Microsoft IT program. Charles McLennan is blind and Min Li is
deaf. Tom Coffin, the Technical Coordinator at NCSA-ACCESS proposed that
the NSF interns develop an accessibility study of the AccessGrid (AG)
technology presently under development at The Mathematics and Computer
Science Division of the Argonne National Laboratory. The study consisted of
an accessibility evaluation of the AG 2.2 Beta software by Charles McLennan
using JAWS 5.0. The interface of the AG2.2 'Venue Client' and the 'RAT
(Robust Audio Tool)' in particular were addressed using JAWS. A study of
various audio to text options were researched for use with the AG. An
accessibility evaluation of a live conference between NCSA and ONR (The
Office of Naval Research) was also conducted. 

The paper can be downloaded at:
http://ball-www2.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Events/AccessibilityEvalAG2.pdf


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Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin at ncsa.uiuc.edu