ÆGIS

Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards

ÆGIS (Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards) is an international project aiming at empowering people with disabilities, the elderly and anyone else experiencing disadvantaged when using Internet services, desktop PCs or mobile devices.

This project will provide an accessible, exploitable and deeply embeddable approach in mainstream Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and will develop open source accessible interfaces and accessibility toolkits for developers, alongside accessible applications and open source assistive technologies for end-users and their supporters.

The consortium is composed of 20 European partners; with Sun Microsystems as coordinator. EPR assumes an important role in this project as it is responsible for the collection of user requirements, the testing and evaluation of the project outcomes and the project’s dissemination activities.

The project offers a unique opportunity to enter a new field (accessible ICTs) and to gain experience and prestige.

A kick-off meeting took place in Prague on 1-3 September 2008 and the second Steering Committee was organised in Stuttgart on 1-3 December 2008.

It is financed under the 7th Research Framework Programme and will last 42 months.

To know more about ÆGIS please, follow this link: http://www.aegis-project.eu/

Publications

AEGIS Newsletter: news about the project, interviews, agenda, publications and more...

AEGIS Newsletter 5, March 2011

AEGIS Newsletter 4, September 2010

AEGIS Newsletter 3, May 2010

AEGIS Newsletter 2, September 2009

AEGIS Newsletter 1, April 2009

Project Dissemination materials:

AEGIS Project leaflet

AEGIS Project poster

AEGIS Project Video

 The AEGIS project video is now available.

Focus is on having a clear explanation of what the project aims to achieve, as well as to highlight the current needs of people with disabilities. To achieve this, a technical overview is provided, as well as the end-users‘ point of view via interviews with key partner representatives.

The final video (with subtitles) is available on the AEGIS website, Youtube, DVD and other channels.

Events

1st International Conference of ÆGIS & 2nd Pan-European Workshop/User Forum

Access for All in the desktop, web and mobile field: an end-user and developer perspective

 Seville, Spain, 6-9 October 2010

The Workshop/User Forum aims to bring together end-users and experts in the field of assistive technologies, from both the OSS community as well as the proprietary one, that focus on the accessibility of desktop, web and mobile applications. During the workshop the project will present the tools developed so far, and will stimulate discussions between both end-users and application developers vis-à-vis the project’s outcomes so far.

The conference aims to gather presenters that address both the end-users as well as the developers’ perspective in several areas. Interactive demos of Assistive Technology ICT, in the Rich Internet Applications, Desktop Applications and Mobile Applications areas as well as developers’ tools that embed accessibility plug-ins will also be demonstrated in a separate exhibition area.

Further information can be found here.