NZ government wins open source award
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| The New Zealand State Services Commission's (SSC) championing of open-source
| software in government helped its ICT (Information and Communications
| Technology) branch pick up an award in the government category of the
| inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards, held in Wellington this month.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=395783089&rid=-50
Student exposes NZ govt Web site shortcomings
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| Bradshaw concentrated on sight disabilities in his project, using a panel of
| testers who are blind, color-blind or have partial sight. He also used a pair
| of open-source automatic testing programs, Validator and OpenWolf. The match
| between the sets of trials was used as a check on the functioning of OpenWolf
| in particular.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1779913129&rid=-50
/Accessibility/ is an area where Linux is strong. Windows is stroner
at /disability/. It disables stuff.
Related:
Low cost software for and by visually impaired
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| Chennai (PTI): A city-based visually impaired software professional has come
| out with an 'open source voice-enabled software' based on LINUX system, for
| the benefit of visually handicapped.
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http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200710231725.htm
Device Profile: Levelstar Icon PDA for visually-impaired users
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| Levelstar used embedded Linux to create a PDA (personal digital assistant)
| for visually impaired users. The "Icon" has a custom hardware design with
| built-in 30GB hard drive, WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB, and comes with a full
| complement of "life managing software," much of it written from scratch for
| blind users.
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http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3329252460.html
Barric: SBC with open-source Linux OS
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| The "Balloon" project is an open source, Xscale based, single
| board embedded computer using an open-source Linux operating
| system and a collection of open source tools to enable
| engineers to develop on the platform.
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http://www.embedded-control-europe.com/prodnews?cat=1&pid=214
IBM helps blind 'see' web video
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| Technology giant, IBM, is soon to launch a multimedia browser to make
| audio and video content accessible to people with vision impairments.
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| [...]
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| The company plans to "open source" its new accessibility software in
| order to make it available to the largest possible number of people.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6507189.stm
IBM tool 'reads' Web video for blind
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| IBM has made a tool for Web browsers that will help the blind and
| visually impaired access streaming multimedia on the Web.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6166491.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Free Operating System For Blind: Adriane Knoppix
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| Klaus and Adriane Knopper are working on an operating system for the
| blind, and as compared to other solutions available, this one is
| absolutely free!
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=17094
The Free Standards Group to Standardize New Accessibility Software Interfaces
Donated by IBM
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| The Free Standards Group has said that it will be developing and
| maintaining software interfaces donated by IBM as an open standard,
| available for all to use. The standardized interfaces, IAccessible2,
| make it far easier for application developers to provide accessible
| applications to computer users with disabilities, regardless of their
| OS platform. IAccessible2 will become a crucial part of the FSG
| Accessibility Workgroup and is available immediately.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/Application/The_Free_Standards_Group_to_Standardize_New_Accessibility_Software_Interfaces_Donated_b
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