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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Steve Jacobs, President
Accessible "Web Access Plug-In" Released for Android Mobile Devices “Raising the Floor, Reducing the Cost, and Leveling the Playing Field for Individuals with Disabilities” HILLIARD, OH July 15, 2010 - IDEAL Group Apps4Android, Inc. announced today the release of the first, fully accessible, Open Source, Web Access Plug-In for Android Mobile Devices in support of Raising the Floor. The new Web Access Plug-In adds speech capabilities to WebView by adding a local JavaScript server. By using one simple piece of JavaScript code, the Web Access Plug-In can be loaded into any web view. WebView is a widget built into android. Android uses WebView to display HTML content. According to Steve Jacobs the President of IDEAL Group, “We are very pleased to release the Web Access Plug-In as an open source donation to ‘Raising the Floor’. According to Gregg Vanderheiden, Director, Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “One of the goals of Raising the Floor is to fill gaps and ensure that people facing disability, literacy, and aging related barriers have access to all technologies, including newer mobile technologies, along with everyone else. This is a great advance on this for Android.” Jacobs went on to state, “We are hopeful that more browsers (including the standard Android Browser) will offer Greasemonkey-like capabilities in the near future. This would be a useful enhancement for all users, and it would make this approach to web accessibility more user-friendly. We are currently working with Trace Research and Development Center on Phase II of this Web Access project. Phase II will build a web browser, tailored to this approach, that uses gestures for moving through the page content. This would provide similar access to the web for Android devices without a keyboard as well as remove the necessity for going into/out of browse mode.” Android "Web Access Plug-In" Resources
About IDEAL Group Apps4Android:
Apps4Android, Inc. is an Android software development
company dedicated to developing free/low-cost, high-quality, mobile
applications that enhance the quality-of-life, independence, employability
and educational success of individuals with disabilities... and everyone
else! They have 800,000+ users in 46 countries.
For more information: About Raising the Floor (RtF):
Raising the Floor is an international consortium of
organizations and individuals focused on ensuring that people experiencing
disabilities, literacy problems, or the effects of aging are able to
access and use all of the information, resources, services, and
communities available on or through the Web including those with limited
or no resources. For more information: Thank you NIDRR and Trace R&D Center:
Thank you Google's Eyes-Free Team: Thanks also to Google's Eyes-Free Team for creating an outstanding smartphone platform with great accessibility features. We would like to give special thanks to Charles Chen whose Fire Vox work was heavily referenced and copied by our developers in writing the JavaScript portion of Web Access. No endorsement of this work by the Department of Education, federal government or Google should be assumed. The contents of this news release do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of Education National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), nor does mention of company names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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