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Accessible Technologies for Lifetime Learning

Explore adaptations using WYNN or Openbook with a camera, Gutenberg's presses, modern print technologies, OCR, CCD, TTS, and digital scanners for enhancing accessibility. Learn how assistive technologies empower individuals with disabilities to access educational materials independently. Discover the evolution of technologies aiding learning and communication. Join us at the Spring Conference on March 22, 2013.

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Accessible Technologies for Lifetime Learning

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  1. VA AHEAD – Spring Conference March 22, 2013 Adaptations using WYNN orOpenbookwitha pearl camera

  2. Technologies of the Distant Past • Gutenberg and Movable Type Presses… • 1439 • 1650 to • 1850 Kevin Eng, Brett Osteen

  3. Current Print Technologies Source: Virginia Tech Photo Library

  4. Assistive Technologies • Enable students and employees with disabilities to read only when assisted by a service group that converts all print media to accessible formats. • Enable students and employees to read independently by helping them convert their own print media to electronic formats and to use AT for a lifetime of learning. Give a person a fish and they will have one meal. Teach a person to fish and you will feed them for life. Paraphrased from an old Chinese Proverb ~ Lao Tzu

  5. 1978 – OCR, CCD, and TTS • In 1978 Ray Kurzweil invents first omni font (any font-recognition software) OCR, • CCD flat bed scanner, and • TTS Text-to-Speech • voice synthesizer. Excerpt from The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Ray Kurzweil.

  6. Flat Bed OCR, Photo Scanners • Current scanners offer high resolution photo and bundled OCR software. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  7. Sheet Feed, Portable Scanners • Flat Bed, Sheet Feed, and Portable Scanners all require book bindings to be guillotined. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  8. Camera Scanners • Zoom-Ex, Zoom-Twix, and Eye-Pal cameras for people with Visual Disabilities or the Blind. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  9. Camera Scanners • WYNN and OpenBookcamera scanners for people with Print, Learning, Visual Disabilities. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  10. WYNN Custom Toolbar • Easy to use for scanning, • print, copying& importing • Web content and various • file types. Editing is easy • Clean button. Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  11. WYNN Custom Toolbar • New files can be read • aloud or magnified. • Audio can be exported to • MP3 files. Files can also • exported to MS Word. • . Source: Manufacturer or Retailer Web site

  12. Questions?

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