Hello Cheryl,
What about just going out to lunch and having a festive adult beverage as
well?
Steve
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From: "Catherine Alfieri" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: CURR: Accessible Society E-letter - Technology for Disabled
> Deaf and severe movement disabilities...
>
> Technology advances in the news
>
> Improvements in technology that allow a person to work on a computer
> purely via eye movemet, and a real-time text display of spoken
> English for deaf students, have both made headlines recently. Both
> technologies show how close technology is to bridging the
> communication gap for people with disabilities.
>
> The Eye Gaze system was originally developed for people with
> amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), it is designed to use for people
> who can move only their eyes. Recently the BBC reported that a
> Spanish firm had won an award for its work on the system. The
> company, Iriscom explains that its product, also called Iriscom,
> moves the mouse pointer by tracking a person's eye movement and mouse
> clicks are performed by blinking. Iriscom costs about $7,200 but is
> not available in the U.S., Gaze Trackers in the U.S. are available
> from EyeTech digital systems for $4,000-$8,000 (online at
> http://www.eyetechds.com/homepage.html )
>
> The National Technical Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, NY
> recently received 2 grants totalling $1.1 million from the U.S. Dept.
> of Education to test and evaluate its new C-Print Pro software, which
> allows communication between those doing real-time captioning and
> students via their computers. The new software, a newer version of
> the original C-Print, will allow students to highlight the real-time
> display of text and to take notes. "Some deaf and hard-of-hearing
> people prefer printed text over other support services like sign
> language interpreting or manual notetaking," said Pamela Francis,
> coordinator of C-Print Training and Development at NTID. "C-Print Pro
> is a dramatic improvement over the previous version of C-Print we
> developed 15 years ago."
>
> C-Print Pro is "designed for rapid real-time communication of text
> between computers on a network specifically for providing support
> services with automatic speech recognition and/or a typing-based
> computerized word-abbreviation system. " To learn more about C-print,
> go to http://www.jsu.edu/depart/dss/terps/cprint.html
>
> Read more about the concept at
> http://www.netac.rit.edu/publication/taskforce/realtime/
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See EASI Special October Bonus offer at http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
EASI November courses are:
Barrier-free E-learning, Accessible Internet Multimedia and Business Benefits of Accessible IT Design:
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi
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