At 9:10 AM -0500 8/13/00, Kelly Pierce wrote:
>URL: http://www.javasoft.com/features/2000/07/access.html
>    Some of the most "spectacular stuff" was presented in the
>    demonstration at the 2000 JavaOneSM Conference by Johnson and Peter
>    Korn, Sun's assistive technology architect. Johnson proudly kicked
>    things off by welcoming the crowd to his "vacation home." Using a
>    laptop with a speech user interface, Johnson deftly closed a shade,
>    turned on a heater and turned off a light.

Not to take anything away from Sun's long history of accomplishments,
Peter Korn's accomplishments, or Earl Johnson's accomplishments, but
it is an unfortunate omission that this article about Sun completely
fails to mention the vital role that Edapta, Inc. played in creating
the software and interfaces that allowed Earl and Peter to demonstrate
these amazing and potentially life-changing innovations.

You can read more about Edapta at http://www.edapta.com/ -- we are
a company committed to making edaptive interfaces that allow everyone
access to web based services.  Our software enabled Earl's vacation
home, and we have developed a product to allow web sites and Java
applications to intelligently "morph" for users with special needs.

--Kynn Bartlett
   Director of Accessibility, Edapta
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