Date post: | 18-Dec-2014 |
Category: |
Education |
Upload: | aegis-accessible-projects |
View: | 294 times |
Download: | 4 times |
An integration projectGuadalinfo Accesible
• Andalucía is, by population, the biggest region in Spain
with more than 8 million people
• There are around 700 villages and towns with lessthan 20,000 people
• People with disabilities in Andalucia account for 8,62%of the population
• The regional public policy is to remove the digitaldivide for disabled people living in Andalucia
Motivation
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
Number of telecentres
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
755 centres
64 in deprived urban areas
510 in areas with less than 5,000 inhabitants
181 in towns with population between 5,000
and 20,000
The biggest European network of telecentres
• To improve the accessibility in the Guadalinfo
centres
• To promote the ICT use among disabled people
• To increase awareness among population with
regard to disabled people
• To foster the innovation of new technologies for e-
inclusion
Objectives
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
• Total amount to be invested: 4.310.360 €
1. Supply of AT devices
2. Development of supporting software and improvements to existing one
3. Adaptation of contents
Main actions and investment
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
• Supply of AT devices
• Mice
• Keyboards
• Screens
• Switches
• Other elements under demand
Hardware (I)
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
• The hardware has been divided into three groups
• Basic, delivered to all centres: keyboards, mice, touch screen
• Extended, to centres located in towns with more than 5,000 people (249 centres): switches and more specialized mice and devices
• Devices for very specific use, delivered to certain centres and available under demand: Braille displays, big size screens,
Hardware (II)
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
Hardware (III)
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
• Improvement of accessibility and functionality in different GNOME apps:
•ORCA (screen reader)
•EVINCE (PDF file viewer)
•OCRFeeder
•Caribou (virtual keyboard with text prediction)
•EVIACAM (mouse by head movements)
•Speech recognition for Spanish
•Dots
•Other
Software (I)
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
• Adaptation to GNOME of the Sc@ut tool for communication with autistic people
• A cognitive training tool that allows experts to remotely track users progress and to add new exercises
• The t-Orienta tool to help the staff at the centres to configure the PC for disabled people
Software (II)
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
• The staff has been individually trained on
accessibility
• Hand-outs and posters
• Awareness campaign
• Call centre to solve problems and ask questions that could appear and arise
Side actions
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
• Contents about accessibility
• Adapted courses and contents for disabled people
• Made in a simple language
• Special training for people receiving free AT devices for home use funded by Junta de Andalucía
Learning materials
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
Companies involved
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible
Thank you!
AN INTEGRATION PROJECTGuadalinfo Accesible