Re: introductions - Liddy Nevile

Hi All--

The University of Toronto Adaptive Technology Resource Center (ATRC) has done a lot of work in this space. Related information can be found at the following addresses (this is not an exhaustive list):


	* IMS Access for All draft specification: http://www.imsglobal.org/accessibility/
	* TILE (The Inclusive Learning Environment), a knowledge repository based on customizing content for learners: http://inclusivelearning.ca/tile/servlet/showtemplate;jsessionid=8D8E1FC2E6A5EB48E68CB73CCDF26E46?template=rswi/AboutTILE
	* ATutor: A learning management system that is accessible and works with TILE
Much of the ATRC work has moved to the Inclusive Design Research Centre (http://idrc.ocad.ca/) at OCAD University in Toronto, in the form of the Fluidproject (fluidproject.org). The group at fluid develop accessible components.

Mike






On Friday, March 14, 2014 1:19 AM, WebKeyIT <v.conway@webkeyit.com> wrote:
 
HI Liddy
This sounds fascinating.  Does it echo some of the work being done by GPII?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Liddy Nevile [mailto:liddy@sunriseresearch.org] 
Sent: Friday, 28 February 2014 9:41 PM
To: Joshue O Connor
Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: Re: introductions - Liddy Nevile

AccessForAll is about the matching of accessible content/resource/
services/etc to the user needs on an individual basis. So even if something
has not been designed with the right principles and is not accessible to
everyone, there might be a form of it that will be perfect for me - or you.
So we are working on the match and because we are using standardised
metadata to do this, if I happen to have made an accessible version of
something for someone, you might be able to use it too - even if it was not
available when the resource was first published - or from the creator of the
original resource.

Wonderful as universal design is an idea, we know that nothing can be
perfect for everyone - so, in general, AccessForAll extends the effort for
accessibility.

There is some vocab available from schema.org and we are working on a
standard with ISO and also IMS is working on this - and lots of others are
involved ....

Hope that helps?

Liddy

On 28/02/2014, at 8:29 PM, Joshue O Connor wrote:

> Liddy Nevile wrote:
> [...]
>> I have an interest in what we now call AccessForAll accessibility - 
>> the matching of an individual's needs and preferences with the 
>> accessibility characteristics of a resource.
>
> Thanks for the intro. I'm curious as to where you see AccessForAll (as 
> a paradigm) in relation to Universal Design?
>
> Josh