Accessible Graphical Display for Numerical Data

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的长期目标是提供创作工具，允许从流行的计算机应用程序中导出图形信息，以一种普遍可用的形式，供所有人使用，特别是盲人或有其他阅读障碍的人使用。ViewPlus已经创建了所需的硬件和软件技术，使所有人都能很好地访问结构良好的带注释的可伸缩矢量图形（SVG）格式的图形信息。该项目将确保几种重要的定量图形信息可以轻松地以这种完全可访问的SVG形式导出。许多专家认为SVG最终将成为电子文献中显示图形的最流行的方式。这个项目增加了主流作者和出版商使用可访问的SVG而不是仅在视觉上可访问的SVG的可能性。作为这个项目的直接结果，许多与健康有关的信息可以立即提供。此外，SVG导出应用程序可能会刺激其他制造商在其软件中添加可访问的SVG导出功能，以便所有人都可以完全访问越来越多的图形信息。更容易获得的文学作品将增加教育和职业机会，并从总体上提高印刷品阅读障碍者的生活质量。盲人的生活质量问题是国家眼科研究所使命的一部分。本项目将开发三个SVG导出实用程序。所有这些都将自动生成结构良好的带注释的SVG文件，无需作者比以其他格式保存更多的工作。ViewPlus IVEO SVG查看器的功能将得到增强，以便所有人都能很好地访问这些文件中的丰富信息。在第一期项目中证实了这种增强通道的可行性。其中一个实用程序是可访问的SVG导出，用于使用环境科学研究所（ESRI）的流行软件创建的GIS（地理信息系统）信息。另一个是ViewPlus Audio graphics Calculator提供的新的可访问SVG导出。最后，将开发一个web服务器实用程序，允许网站通过向客户端发送音频文件来访问图形。该实用程序还将具有可访问的SVG导出功能，类似于音频图形计算器导出的功能，提供比实际在线互联网应用程序更完整的音频访问。公共卫生相关性：这个项目可以极大地增加严重印刷品阅读障碍的人可以访问的信息的数量和质量，包括大量目前几乎不可能访问的医疗和健康相关信息。它有很大的潜力为盲人、严重阅读障碍或其他印刷品阅读障碍的人提供教育和职业机会。因此，它可以极大地提高盲人的生活质量，这是NEI的使命之一。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long range goal of this project is to provide authoring tools permitting graphical information to be exported from popular computer applications in a form that is universally usable by all people, in particular by people who are blind or who have other print disabilities. ViewPlus has already created the hardware and software technologies required for all people to have excellent access to graphical information that is in well-structured annotated Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) format. This project will assure that several kinds of important quantitative graphical information can easily be exported in this fully accessible SVG form. Many experts believe that SVG will eventually become the most popular way of displaying graphics in electronic literature. This project increases the likelihood that mainstream authors and publishers will use accessible SVG instead of SVG that is only visually accessible. Much health-related information can immediately be made accessible as a direct result of this project. In addition the SVG export applications are likely to stimulate other manufacturers to add accessible SVG export functionality to their software so that more and more graphical information can become fully accessible to all people. More accessible literature will enhance educational and professional opportunities and generally improve quality of life for people with print disabilities. Quality of life issues for blind people are part of the mission of the National Eye Institute. Three SVG export utilities will be developed in this project. All will automatically produce well-structured annotated SVG files, requiring no more effort by authors than saving in any other format. The capabilities of the ViewPlus IVEO SVG Viewer will be enhanced to permit excellent access by all people to the rich information in such files. Feasibility of this enhanced access was proven in the Phase I project. One of these utilities is an accessible SVG export for GIS (Geographic Information System) information created using the popular software from Environmental Sciences Research Institute (ESRI). Another is a new accessible SVG export from the ViewPlus Audio Graphing Calculator. Finally a web server utility will be developed that permits web sites to make graphs accessible by sending an audio tone file to the client. The utility will also have an accessible SVG export capability similar to what is exported by the Audio Graphing Calculator, giving more complete audio access than is practical on-line with internet applications. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project can dramatically increase the amount and quality of information that can be accessed by people with severe print disabilities including a great deal of medical and health- related information that is presently nearly impossible to make accessible. It has great potential to enhance educational and professional opportunities for people who are blind, severely dyslexic, or have other print disabilities. As such it could strongly enhance quality of life for blind people, one of the missions of the NEI.