Accessible Graphical Display for Numerical Data

数字数据的可访问图形显示

• 批准号: 7482050
• 负责人: VLADIMIR L BULATOV
• 金额: $ 37.45万
• 依托单位: VIEWPLUS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7482050
• 关键词: Client; Complex; Computer software; Computers; Contracts; Data; Documentation; Ecology; Electronics; Elements; Extensible Markup Language; Frequencies; Future; General Population; Geographic Information Systems; Goals; Government Agencies; Graph; Health; Health Professional; Hearing; Internet; Label; Laws; Literature; Mainstreaming; Malignant Neoplasms; Manufacturer Name; Medical; Mission; National Cancer Institute; National Eye Institute; Numbers; Operating System; Phase; Play; Plug-in; Printing; Public Health; Purpose; Quality of life; Range; Research Institute; Site; Special Education; Structure; Students; Tactile; Technology; Texas; Text; Time; Title; Touch sensation; Trademark; United States National Institutes of Health; Visual; Visually Impaired Persons; blind; braille; college; falls; high school; improved; instructor; instrument; print disabilities; tool; vector

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的长期目标是提供创作工具，允许以所有人都可以普遍使用的形式从流行的计算机应用程序中导出图形信息，特别是盲人或有其他印刷障碍的人。ViewPlus已经创建了所有人都能很好地访问结构良好的带注释的可缩放矢量图形（SVG）格式的图形信息所需的硬件和软件技术。这个项目将确保几种重要的定量图形信息可以很容易地导出在这个完全可访问的SVG形式。许多专家认为SVG最终将成为电子文献中最流行的图形显示方式。这个项目增加了主流作者和出版商使用可访问SVG而不是只能在视觉上访问的SVG的可能性。该项目的直接结果是可以立即获取许多与健康相关的信息。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。更容易获得的文献将增加教育和职业机会，并普遍提高印刷品残疾人的生活质量。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，与以任何其他格式保存相比，不需要作者付出更多的努力。ViewPlus IVEO SVG查看器的功能将得到增强，以允许所有人都能很好地访问这些文件中的丰富信息。第一期工程已证明了这一改善通道的可行性。其中一个实用程序是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）信息的可访问SVG导出。另一个是一个新的可访问的SVG导出从ViewPlus音频图形计算器。最后，将开发一个网络服务器实用程序，允许网站通过向客户端发送音频音调文件来访问图形。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。公共卫生关系：这个项目可以大大提高信息的数量和质量，可以访问的人有严重的打印障碍，包括大量的医疗和健康相关的信息，目前几乎是不可能的访问。它有很大的潜力，以提高教育和专业机会的人谁是盲人，严重的阅读障碍，或有其他打印障碍。因此，它可以大大提高盲人的生活质量，这是NEI的使命之一。