During the week of June 28th, 2004, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications ACCESS facility (NCSA-ACCESS) hosted two National Science Foundation (NSF) interns, Mr. Min Li and Mr. Charles McLennan. The two interns are a part of the AAPD (American Association for Persons with Disabilities)/Microsoft IT program. Charles McLennan is blind and Min Li is deaf. Tom Coffin, the Technical Coordinator at NCSA-ACCESS proposed that the NSF interns develop an accessibility study of the AccessGrid (AG) technology presently under development at The Mathematics and Computer Science Division of the Argonne National Laboratory. The study consisted of an accessibility evaluation of the AG 2.2 Beta software by Charles McLennan using JAWS 5.0. The interface of the AG2.2 'Venue Client' and the 'RAT (Robust Audio Tool)' in particular were addressed using JAWS. A study of various audio to text options were researched for use with the AG. An accessibility evaluation of a live conference between NCSA and ONR (The Office of Naval Research) was also conducted.
The paper can be downloaded at: http://ball-www2.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Events/AccessibilityEvalAG2.pdf ___________________________________________________________ Tom Coffin .......................... [email protected]
