AEGIS Web Site Opens

The ÆGIS project's web site is now open, www.aegis-project.eu. 

In the next few months we will be looking to users and experts to give their thoughts and impressions in interviews and workshops.  If you are interested in contributing to this exciting project then contact David Colven at the ACE Centre, (colven@ace-centre.org.uk; +44 (0)1865 759813)

The project seeks to determine whether 3rd generation access techniques will provide a more accessible, more exploitable and deeply embeddable approach in mainstream ICT (desktop, rich Internet and mobile applications).

This approach is developed and explored with the Open Accessibility Framework (OAF) through which aspects of the design, development and deployment of accessible mainstream ICT are addressed.

The OAF provides embedded and built-in accessibility solutions, as well as toolkits for developers, for "engraving" accessibility in existing and emerging mass-market ICT-based products, thus making accessibility open, plug & play, personalised & configurable, realistic & applicable in various contexts; ÆGIS is placing users and their needs at the centre of all ICT developments.

Based on a holistic User Centred Design (UCD), ÆGIS identifies user needs and interaction models for several user groups, (users with visual, hearing, motion, speech and cognitive impairments as well as application developers) and develops open source-based generalised accessibility support into mainstream ICT devices/applications:

• desktop,
• rich web applications, and
• Java-based mobile devices.

Last updated: 17/10/08