From : Steve Jacobs Fwd: A few examples you might find useful... or, maybe not. :-)

>From : Steve Jacobs<steve.jacobs@ideal-group.org>

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  Dear all,
 
 While I am not an active member of your Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force... I care, very much, about pioneering new ways to accommodate the access needs of individuals with a wide range of print disabilities. Our companies are doing a little "bleeding-edge" work in this area that is proving to be useful to some individuals.
 
 I thought I'd share a few examples with you.  The objective of our work is, "to enable learners with print disabilities, and everyone else, to more easily access, navigate, search for, and acquire information from single or collections of digital content (in the formats below), using both mobile devices and computers. 
 1. HTML (including web pages, websites, blogs, and wikis)
 2. PDF
 3. Doc/Docx
 4. ePub2/3
 5. RTF
 6. TXT
 
 Important notes: 
 
 1. The source content does not need to have been designed with accessibility or usability in mind in order to knowledge mine it into more accessible formats. Another note: We are just in the beginning stages of enhancing rendered content in a manner that is fully accessible to AT.
 
 2. We still have a long way to go to make our dream a reality so I am not presenting the following examples as final solutions.  They represent only a small portion, and the beginning, of our work.
 
 Enhanced Alternate Ports-of-Entry to standard blogs
 
 Assistive technology: 
 http://ideal-group.org/assisitve-technology-blog
 
 Human factors: 
 http://ideal-group.org/human-factors-blog
 
 Disability law: 
 http://ideal-group.org/disability-law-blog
 
 
 Enhanced Web-based Collections of Articles
 
 Original 1: MedlinePlus Information about Cancer:
 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/all_healthtopics.html

 Enhanced 1: MedlinePlus Information about Cancer
 http://ideal-group.org/nlm-prototype/
 
 Original 2: Library of 1,081 National Academies Press Publications focised on "Literacy"
 http://search.nap.edu/napsearch.php?term=health+literacy&x=0&y=0

 Enhanced 2: Fourteen randomly-selected books focused on Literacy automatically rendered into a knowledge base. Note: We could have easily opted to render only 1... or all 1,081 books into this knowledge base.
 http://ideal-group.org/nap/Publications-Included-in-this-Sample-Knowledge-Base.htm
 
 Accessibility/Usability-Enhanced Wikipedia Article(s)
 
 Original: Wikipedia article on "Protein"
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein

 Automatically data-mined and generated Mind Map of the Wikipedia article: "Protein."
 http://ideal-group.org/wikimedia/data-mining.htm
 
 Automatically knowledge-mined and generated mind map of the topic "Protein" from all articles contained in Wikipedia. Note: For the purpose of this demonstration we limited the returned results to 50 "knowledge discoveries" by our knowledge-mining engine. We could have instructed our engine to knowledge-mine the first 100, 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 "discoveries."
 http://ideal-group.org/wikimedia/knowledge-mining.htm
 
 Automatically knowledge-mined and generated summary of the topic Protein from from all articles contained in Wikipedia. Note: For the purpose of this demonstration we limited the returned results to 50 "knowledge discoveries" by our knowledge-mining engine. We could have instructed our engine to knowledge-mine the first 100, 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 "discoveries."
 http://ideal-group.org/wikimedia/summary_of_the_topic_protein_kno.htm
 
 Accessibility/Usability-Enhanced Port-of-Entry to an eBook
 
 CK-12 Biology-I Digital Textbook Knowledge Base:
 http://ideal-group.org/ck-12-biology-1/

 My best to all of you.
 
 Sincerely,
 
 Steve
 
 Steve Jacobs, President
 IDEAL Group, Inc. and,
 CEO, Apps4Android, Inc.
 steve.jacobs@ideal-group.org
 http://ideal-group.org
 http://apps4android.org
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 Fax: (614) 522-1031
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