Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure: Making Progress Cognitive WAI March 2014

1. Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure: Making ProgressCognitive WAI March 2014

2. WHY create a GPII ?What is the problem? • Solutions don’t exist for everyone • Some can’t afford solutions that are good enough to work with newer technologies • Solutions are too complicated • Even when a fit does exist – people can’t find it • Solutions don’t work across all of the different platforms/devices that people encounter and have to use

3. What is the GPII ? An infrastructure that does 3 things • Makes it easy to find out what things will help a person to use digital interfaces (and stores the information in the cloud) • Invokes those features on any device the person encounters, anywhere, anytime. • Makes it easier and less expensive to create, market and support new solutions, internationally

4. What does this look like?First, a person finds what works for them…

5. …and stores in the cloud

6. Developers create solutions and store them in the cloud

7. When person encounters a device – it looks up what they need

8. And an interface they can’t use…

9. Becomes one they can

10. Animation athttp:// gpii.net

11. DEMO of GPII Auto-Personalization http://tinyurl.com/NSF-NIST-GPII-DEMO

12. Who is building the GPII? • A consortium of over 50 companies and organizations in over a dozen countries • (the Raising the Floor Consortium) • Under funding from Canada, Europe and the US • Governments, Foundations, Industry, and Partners

13. What makes it work? GPII Library Implementation UIITA-RERC US Dept of Ed Cloud4all User Awareness User Awareness Needs & Prefs Discovery Aid Needs & Prefs Discovery Aid Needs & Prefs Storage Needs & Prefs Storage GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace Shopping Aid Shopping/ Alerting Aid Helping users find out what will help them… Providing access instantly, anywhere, onany device Making it easier, lower-cost to create & market new solutions Users find out something exists for them. Users find out something exists for them. Users can find out which types of things help them Users can find out which types of things help them Users can storeneeds & preferencesinfo for later use Users can storeneeds & preferencesinfo for later use Find all solutions, AT & Mainstream Device / feature / Service Find all solutions, AT & Mainstream device / feature / service Users can use their profile to find just what helps them Users can use their profile to find just what helps them Fluid/Floe Prefs & Perm Server Prefs & Perm Server Real Time Matching Real Time Matching Delivery/Launch Management Delivery/Launch Management Media & Materials Media & Materials Assistance on Demand (AOD) Assistance on Demand (AOD) User needs & prefs stored securely and available anywhere User needs & prefs stored securely and available anywhere Prefs and context used to determine best fit; here, now. Prefs and context used to determine best fit; here, now. Built-in + AT are auto-adjusted and launched, anywhere Built-in + AT are auto-adjusted and launched, anywhere Auto- augmentation transformation and/or replacement Auto- augmentation transformation and/or replacement User can call up any assistance anywhere User can call up any assistance anywhere Developers’ Space Developers’ Space Consumers & Experts Connection Consumers & Experts Connection Service Creation Tools Service Creation Tools GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace Micro-Finance Micro-Payment Infrastructure Micro-Finance Micro-Payment Infrastructure Free & commercial parts to speed dev, and lower costs Free & commercial parts to speed dev, and lower costs Experts, consumers,testers etc to helpnew developers Experts, consumers,testers etc to helpnew developers To make it easy to Create AOD, Media, & Material service To make it easy to Create AOD, Media, & Material service Developers can quickly, efficientlymarket worldwide Developers can quickly, efficientlymarket worldwide Mechanism for Financing R&D and Service Del Mechanism for Financing R&D and Service Del PROSPERITY 4 ALL

14. GPII Test Implementations By AT Companies, Mainstream Companies & R&D Orgs • Operating Systems – including Windows, Linux, and Android • Browsers – including IE, Firefox and Chrome • Phones – Smartphones (Android) and Simple Feature Phones • Embedded Devices– Kiosk, Train Ticket Machine, PixelSense • Home– DTV, Smart house simulation • Web Apps – Online Banking Simulation, Social Network • Web/server based AT– WebAnywhere, SAToGo, Browsealoud • Installed AT – NVDA, ReadWrite Gold, SuperNova,Maavis • Phone AT– Mobile Accessibility, eCtouch/eCmobile,

15. Behind the Scenes • Working mainstream standards efforts • ePub • Indie UI User Context seeding use case for user preferences • Developer tools • …

16. Conclusion • GPII is on track to complete its development • What then? • already working on implementation & sustainability • AT implementations • Windows, Linux, Android platforms • Library Implementation underway • What does GPII mean to you?

17. Thank you http:// gpii.net http:// raisingthefloor.org • This work was funded by • the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Dept of Education under Grants H133E080022 (RERC-IT) and H133E130028 (UIITA-RERC) and contract ED-OSE-12-D-0013 (Preferences for Global Access), • by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme(FP7/2007-2013) grant agreement 289016 (Cloud4all) and 610510 (Prosperity4All), • by the Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation • By contributions from Adobe Foundation, the Consumer Electronics Association Foundation, IBM, Microsoft, and all of the Partners • The opinions and results herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the funding agencies.