- From: Kristina Seyer Smith <kristina@bonair.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:22:23 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Dear W3C Colleagues, I was just at a conference and saw the most amazing table that was developed by the military to provide 3D topography using raised pins (covered by a balloon-like stretchy surface). It currently takes a couple of minutes to morph into another topography. I was thinking that this could be a really neat accessibility tool for those with limited vision to interact with a graphical display, such as buttons on the internet, graphical displays, art, or even it's current use - a map. It's currently very expensive, although imagine extending W3C standards to this in a few years! There's an image of this table at: http://www.xenotran.com/products.htm It's made by the US Army Corp of Engineers Best, Kristina ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kristina Seyer Smith, Manager of Maps and Records Spatial Information/GIS Phone: 1-650-723-0594 FAX: 1-650-723-7905 Stanford University, Facilities Operations 327 Bonair Siding, Stanford, CA 94305-7274 mailto:kristina@bonair.stanford.edu http://maps.stanford.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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