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Techshare 2009 - Making the Most of Technology Disability and the need for accessibility always was a source for new inventions. I want to show how over the times this desire for accessibility lead to a lot of our day to day items we don't want to miss particularly in our offices. This talk was about the history of technology and which role accessibility took for innovation and could take for future development. I described that engineering is not only a technical but on the same time a social profession. This combination tries to make the world a better place by innovation and inclusion of all - regardless of having a disability or not. Techshare 2009 took place on 16 - 18 September 2009 at the ExCeL London conference and exhibition centre. http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/solutionsforbusiness/trainingandconferences/techshare/Pages/techshare.aspx Techshare is a series of international events which highlight the importance of digital technology in the lives of people with disabilities. Join us in exploring how new innovations in assistive technology can enhance education, work, and play.
Transcript of TechShare 2009 - Accessibility and Disability - A History of Innovation, Artur Ortega, Yahoo!
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Accessibility and DisabilityA History of Innovation
September 2009
Techshare
Speaker
Artur Ortega
Accessibility Evangelist
Yahoo!
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Who is Artur Ortega?
Blind Software Engineer
Innovation
A new way of doing something.
Innovation
A new way of doing something
radical and revolutionary.
Changes in
- thinking - products
Accessibility
The stone is given its existence; it need not fight for being what it is - a stone in a field.
Man has to be himself in spite of unfavorable circumstances; that means he has to make his own existence at every single
moment.
Source: Jose Ortega y Gasset 1883-1955
Innovation in the Office
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The Office of Today
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Keyboard
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Keyboard
- Pellegrino Turri di Castelnuovo,
Countess Carolina Vantoni
- Precursor to the typewriter
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Keyboard
- 1960
- Picture based keyboards
- Today: McDonald’s
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Printer
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Printer
- Pellegrino Turri di
Castelnuovo
- Printer
- Ink: Tracing paper coated
with coal dust
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Scanner
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Scanner & OCR
- 1975
- Ray Kurzweil
- Reading Machine
- Flatbed scanner and OCR
technology
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Telephone
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Telephone
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Hearing devices
- U.S. patent on
telephone
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Telephone
- 1990
- ADA
- Accessible phones
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Telephone
- 1998
- Loopset
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Radio
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Radio
- Transistor
- Graham Bell and Laboratory
- Hearing Aids
- Sony: Transistor radio
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Radio
- Spectrogram
- Graham Bell Laboratory
- Making speech visible
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CPU
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Binary Code
- 1821
- Louis Braille six dot code
- Binary code, character set
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Microphone
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Microphone
- 1917
- E.C. Wente of Bell
Laboratories
- Condenser microphone
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Speech Recognition
- 1952
- Davis, Biddulph and Balashek of
Bell Laboratories
- Ten digits: 97 percent accuracy
- Today: Dragon NaturallySpeaking
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Headphones
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Talking books
- 1932
- American Foundation for
the blind
- Durable long playing
record
- Today: Audio books
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Voice Indexing
A Guide for Handicapped Visitors”
-Today: Apple iPod shuffle
-1980
-Talking book “Access to National Parks:
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Speech synthesiser
- 1936
- H.W. Dudley of Bell Laboratories
- Artificial talking machine
- “Voice coder“: "Voder“
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Applications
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Subtitling
-1960
-Pilgrim Imaging
-Captioned Films for the Deaf Program
-Today: BBC subtitles 100%
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Teletype machine
- 1964
- Marsters and Weitchrecht
- Teletype machine attached to
the telephone system
- Today: Internet chat and Instant Messaging
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"I have spent, as you can imagine, a fair
chunk of my time trying to persuade people with hearing impairments to make use of electronic mail because I found it so powerful myself.“
-1972
-Vint Cerf
-protocols for the ARPANET
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The Office of the Future
Accessibility and Disability
The Future of Innovation
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“The origins of such technological staples as public address systems, text messaging and even the
Internet itself can be traced to innovative accommodations to people with disabilities. This
phenomenon is the basis for a growing awareness among engineers, architects and product
developers of the significance of universal design in our physical and electronic environments.”
- Deborah Kendrick, Cincinnati Inquirer
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Artur Ortega
Accessibility EvangelistYahoo! Europe Ltd
125 Shaftesbury AvenueLondon WC2H 8AD
United [email protected]
