Faculty of InformationWhat's New?
OpenCaps Beta released! OpenCaps is a free, web-based, open-source caption and subtitle editor developed by the ATRC. OpenCaps can be used as a plugin for the upcoming Matterhorn Project videos ingested into the Matterhorn system.
The Fluid Project is very pleased to announce the release of Fluid Infusion 1.1.2.
ATutor 1.6.4 is now available. New features include: compliance with the IMS Common Cartridge Lite 1.0 content interoperability standard; prerequisite test content control; user interface enhancements; extended social profiles and package and backup conversion.
- New Demo Portal with improved component demos
- Sneak Peak for Mobile FSS iPhone theme
- Improved and simplified Image Reorderer examples and documentation
- Uploader support for Firefox 3.5 and improved experience for Internet Explorer
- Other bug fixes, such as more class name normalization and InlineEdit fixes
tagin! The tagin! project is pleased to announce that the Javascript API 0.1 has been released. The API can be used to create tagin!-enabled applications on any platform with full browser capabilities. Additionally the tagin! Firefox Add-on 0.6b has been released.
A research paper, written by Jutta Treviranus, chronicles new user experience (UX) design approaches utilized in the Fluid Project.
The online course "Understanding Web Accessibility" has started! Register now for the next session commencing January 25, 2010.
Volunteer Opportunities - If you are interested in volunteering with the ATRC, please contact us at: 416-978-4360
Accessibility & Usability Testing Opportunities! - For our current round of testing, we are looking for people who use assistive technologies to help us evaluate and improve the user experience of Fluid software.
AChecker v.1.0 web accessibility evaluation tool has been released.
Upcoming Conferences & Events
Conferences and Workshops:
- AChecker and the ATRC's new online Accessibility Course will be presented at Showcase Ontario Sept 21 - 23, 2009, and the Essex County Accessibility Workshops Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 (5225 Howard Avenue, LaSalle, Ontario N9A 6Z6.)
- In November, Fluid will be attending the Museum Computer Networks MCN 2009 conference on November 11-14, 2009 in Portland, OR and the 2009 Nonprofit Software Development Summit on November 18-20, 2009 in Oakland, CA. For Fluid upcoming Fluid project presentations and slides and papers from past presentations, visit the Fluid project website.
New Products
Highlighted Products and Websites:
WGBH's National Center for Accessible Media Publishes Free Guidelines for Describing STEM Images for Use within Digital Talking Books and on Web Sites.
Proloquo2Go - is a new augmentative communication software now available for the iPod Touch and iPhone.
Project Possibility - a non-profit community service project committed to creating groundbreaking open source software for people with disabilities.
WebAIM conducted a survey of screen reader users and has published a summary of the results online. This may be read at: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/