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Interview with Prof Klaus Miesenberger (Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz) at EU EDPWD policy conference (02/12/2011). He talks about the benefits of bringing together many disability representatives and experts from around Europe, as well as shortly introduces ICCHP 2012 where also AEGIS, ACCESSIBLE and VERITAS projects will be presented.

Interview with Mr Aurélien Daydé (Communication and Media Officer @ EDF – European Disability Forum) at EDPWD policy event (02/12/2011)

Christophe presents the extensions for OpenOffice.org Writer and LibreOffice Writer that enable users to evaluate and repair accessibility issues in word processing documents, and then export them in accessible formats.

“AccessODF” (http://sourceforge.net/p/accessodf/wiki/) is a freeware extension for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, two office suites that are freely available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix and Solaris.
At the same time, 2 new versions of two other extensions: odt2daisy (http://odt2daisy.sourceforge.net/) and odt2braille (http://odt2braille.sourceforge.net/) were released. The former enables users to export word processing documents to digital talking books in the DAISY format; the latter enables exporting to Braille and printing on a Braille embosser.

AccessODF, odt2braille, odt2daisy are software developed in the AEGIS project (www.aegis-project.eu) and are available as “open-source software”.

Interview with Mr Bart Serien (Sclera VZW) at AEGIS conference (30/11/2011).

Interview with Prof Gregg Vanderheiden (NPII) at AEGIS conference (30/11/2011)

Interview with Mr Jan Rottier (Eureka Die-’s-lektikus ADIBIB) at AEGIS conference (30/11/2011)

Interview with Ms Helga Stevens (NV-A) at AEGIS conference (29/11/2011).

Interview with Mr Paul Timmers at AEGIS conference (29/11/2011). Mr Timmers is Head of Unit of ICT for Inclusion in the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society & Media.

Interview with Mr Marc Van der Aa (PlexTalk) at AEGIS conference (30/11/2011).