atbar - accessibility toolbar
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
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
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
ECS Accessibility Team
http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk