Accessibility Reaching Everywhere - AEGIS Workshop and International Conference

AEGIS Conference Proceedings available

aegis — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:01:06 +0000

The AEGIS Conference Proceedings are now available, and can be downloaded here in accessible PDF format.

You can also read it via below Flash supported book format.

AEGIS project booth at European Day of people with Disabilities policy event (Brussels, Belgium)

aegis — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:04:08 +0000

Inmaculada Placencia and Christophe Strobbe at booth

AEGIS project had a dedicated booth at the European Day of people with Disabilities policy event (Brussels, Belgium).
The booth provided demonstration on accessible document creation, mobile applications, as well as showed the AEGIS project video on a dedicated video wall.
Inmaculada Placencia, former Deputy Head of Unit, for Integration of people with disabilities within the Directorate General for Employment social affairs and equal opportunities, and now Deputy Head of Unit, Rights of Persons with Disabilities, DG JUST, EC paid our booth a visit.

Interview with Prof Klaus Miesenberger (J.K. Univ. Linz) at EU EDPWD policy conference (02/12/2011)

aegis — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:43:29 +0000

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 Aurelien Dayde (EDF) at EDPWD policy event (02/12/2011)

aegis — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:46:51 +0000

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

Production accessible documents with free open source tools – Interview Christophe Strobbe

aegis — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:17:17 +0000

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).

aegis — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:58:44 +0000

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)

aegis — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:16:28 +0000

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

Interview with Mr Jan Rottier (ADIBIB) at AEGIS conference (30/11/2011)

aegis — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:13:15 +0000

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

Interview with Mr Wim Moeyaert (WVA) at AEGIS conference (30/11/2011)

aegis — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:05:58 +0000

Interview with Mr Wim Moeyaert (Werkgroep Vorming en Aktie) at AEGIS conference (30/11/2011)

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

aegis — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:05:07 +0000

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