atbar - accessibility toolbar

E.A Draffan

ATbar

Arabic / EnglishAccessibility Toolbar

Overview

• Why have an accessibility toolbar?

• ATbar features

• Customisation - the Marketplace

• The challenges of innovation!

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Why have a toolbar?

Mainstreaming AT

When would I need a web browser toolbar?

The toolbar will never replace complex assistive technologies

ATbar features

Text Enlargement

Change the look and feel

• Overlays, fonts, line spacing and colour changes

Text to Speech

Word prediction and spelling

Customisation of the toolbar

The Marketplace

http://marketplace.atbar.org/en/

http://marketplace.atbar.org/ar/

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

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.

Discover

Create

Translate

Develop

Test

AT Localisation Framework

Cultural Context

Dimensions Appropriateness

Environment Demographics

Language Impact on Design

Translation Technical

Individual Needs Activity

Skills

Designers

LinguistsDevelopers

Visionary / User /Owner

Users

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

http://youtu.be/yp3Y-VSyqT4

ATbar Arabic Walkthrough

Desktop ATbar for Windows• Text to Speech and Screen Reading

• Coloured Overlay and Ruler

• Onscreen Keyboard

• Magnification

Available from https://ar.atbar.org/desktop-atbar/

Responsive Design? Mobile Technologies?

Documentation

http://en.wiki.atbar.org/wiki/Main_Page

ATKit Framework

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.

Thank You شكرا /

E.A. Draffan

ead@ecs.soton.ac.uk

ECS Accessibility Team

http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk