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Movie about RoboBraille
June 3, 2009: On December 1, 2008, RoboBraille received the e-Inclusion Award for e-Accessibility at the 2008 European Ministerial conference in Vienna. At the presentation, the judges said that RoboBraille "[demonstrated] the highest standards of accessibility and inclusivity in every aspect of the project, plus a commitment to attaining e-Accessibility in line with the EU guidance; meeting all the requirements and standards for convergence and interoperability in providing accessible and inclusive content."
The 2008 EU e-Inclusion Awards are part of i2010, the EU policy framework for the information society and media. As such, the aim of the award is to encourage innovative ways of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to help digitally and socially excluded Europeans.
One way to create focus is to show the good examples. Therefore the winners of the e-Inclusion awards - including RoboBraille - have been visited by a professional film crew.
Watch the RoboBraille documentary here
The European Commission names RoboBraille winner of award
The team behind the Danish RoboBraille-service received loud acclamation when their project won the e-Accessibility Award, given by the European Commission Monday night at the City Hall in Vienna.
The European Commission names RoboBraille winner of award
Online banks inaccessible to blind users
During the last years, it has become more and more common to have internet access to banks.
This possibility is an obvious advantage for people with a visual impairment. However, many online banks are designed in such a way that they cannot be accessed via a so-called screen reader which is used by the visually impaired to browse websites. Thus, the visually impaired have a limited choice in banks as they need to take into account whether the online bank is accessible.
Read more about how Online banks are inaccessible to blind users
RoboBraille named "Project of the Month"
The Commission has based the nomination on the argument that prior to the appearance of the RoboBraille service, translation of documents into contracted Braille or synthetic speech was either handled by users relying on software installed on their own pc or by suppliers. Now, users can access material in an accessible format whenever this is necessary.
Read more about how the EU Commission names RoboBraille "Project of the Month" for June 2007
Empty exam CD’s for dyslexic schoolchildren
On Monday, when Danish dyslexic schoolchildren had to sit their exams in reading and spelling, it almost went wrong. Last week, approximately 500 schools received a cd containing texts which were to be read out loud by the speech synthesizers located on the schools. On Friday, however, the Danish school authority discovered that the cd’s were blank
Read more about the empty exam CD's here.