ATbar - Accessibility Toolbar
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ATbar is free and allows you to change the look and feel of webpages, increase and decrease font sizes, have text read aloud, use coloured overlays, readability and a dictionary to aid reading. Spell check forms and try word prediction when writing. It is a simple tool which is available for most popular browsers.
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- 1. ATbar Arabic / English Accessibility Toolbar E.A Draffan
- 2. Overview • Why have an accessibility toolbar? • ATbar features • Customisation - the Marketplace • The challenges of innovation!
- 3. Why have a toolbar?
- 5. When would I need a web browser toolbar? The toolbar will never replace complex assistive technologies
- 8. Change the look and feel • Overlays, fonts, line spacing and colour changes
- 10. Word prediction and spelling
- 11. Customisation of the toolbar
- 12. The Marketplace http://marketplace.atbar.org/en/ http://marketplace.atbar.org/ar/
- 13. Using ATbar • Add the free ‘bookmark’ or ‘favorite’ to your browser toolbar - available from https://www.atbar.org/ or https://www.atbar.org/ • You can share it with anyone and embed it into your website
- 14. Issues • Flash • iframes • Text size and colours not changing in some websites • CSS removal affects toolbar • Localisation Toolbar does not stay loaded when moving between websites – Google Chrome only at the moment.
- 15. AT Localisation Framework Visionary / User /Owner Discover Create Individual Needs Activity Skills Translate Test Users Develop Cultural Context Dimensions Appropriateness Environment Demographics Language Impact on Design Translation Technical Designers Developers Linguists
- 16. Arabic ATbar – AT Challenges www.atbar.org • Voices • Bi-lateral text, font sizing • Layout • Images • Language used in help files • Testing • Communication with users • Ongoing Feedback • Maintenance
- 17. ATbar Arabic Walkthrough http://youtu.be/yp3Y-VSyqT4
- 18. Desktop ATbar for Windows • Text to Speech and Screen Reading • Coloured Overlay and Ruler Responsive • Onscreen Keyboard Design? Mobile Technologies? • Magnification Available from https://ar.atbar.org/desktop-atbar/
- 20. ATKit Framework
- 21. What helps when innovating! • Collaborative working • Good code - it is open source! https://github.com/AccessAtECS/ATBar • Problems shared – bug tracking, issues raised, comments made, new ideas. • Social media – wikis for documentation, tweets and blogs for news • Multiple means of representation, expression and engagement to accommodate individual differences.
- 22. Thank You شكرا / E.A. Draffan ead@ecs.soton.ac. uk ECS Accessibility Team http://access.ecs. soton.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
- Let’s keep the tools in our toolkit simple and easy to use One person carrying a large toolbox with many tools says “I’m just going to knock this nail in” The second person has just a hammer and says, “So why over complicate things? THIS would do the job perfectly well.”
- Entry level – first step to more advanced solutions Stimulus to more complex solutions Stimulus to innovation
- Visiting other labs and libraries No other assistive technology available In the future additional utilities from the market place
- Enlarge and Minimalise text, change fonts, increase line spacing. Spell checking – aspell - need to improve the quality of the results. Wiktionary - Arabic is so basic that its use is limited. Pages in category "English verb forms" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,688 total. Pages in category "Arabic verbs" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 730 total. Text to speech using Acapela voices Word Prediction from AIType Colour changes for the site and the text and links or the toolbar.
- Personalisation? One person holding a T-shirt with the words ‘1 size fits all’ says, “Will this do for you? Another person says, “No – that won’t fit ME.” The third person says, “ We are ALL unique with individual needs and requirements.”
- Where do you get it from ? Free Free to branch and fork as new development Free to distribute