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Virtual User Concept for Supporting Inclusive Design of Consumer Products and User Interfaces (VICON)
Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,
The needs of people with sensory or dexterity impairments are generally not well considered when designing user interfaces (UIs) for mainstream consumer products. The majority of existing interfaces and controls rarely fulfil the accessibility requirements of users suffering from visual, hearing, and dexterity impairments. It is also common for an individual to have multiple impairments than just ...
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Visually Impaired Seniors Active Learning
Start date: Nov 1, 2012,
...ea of social inclusion for elderly persons), the Austrian Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted, the Slovak Blind and Partially Sighted Union, the Croatian Association of the Blind, the Royal National Institute of Blind people (UK) and Royal Dutch Visio, a service provider specialised in visual impairment.
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Lifelong Learning Needs for Ageing People with Sensory Disabilities
Start date: Oct 1, 2011,
SensAge will be a Network of Networks, Associations and Organisations addressing the issues of enabling ageing people with sensory disabilities – blind/visual impairment, deaf/hearing impairment, and deafblind - to take part in lifelong learning in accordance with EU Strategies and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Its Aim is to become the Reference Point for the gather ...
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Getting to grips with a European model : The project has developed a training model which will form the basis for the development of courses for visually impaired masseurs throughout Europe and will hopefully contribute to the creation of Europe-wide accreditation. This project started in 2001 and lasted 39 months.
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Teaching blind people to programme with the aid of ProBIQ : With the "Programming with Borland C++ Builder 5" product, the ProBIQ project partners have for the first time developed a future-oriented vocational qualification for blind and visually challenged people. The curriculum and the teaching and learning materials are available free of charge on a CD-ROM or on the Internet in the four project ...
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Blind and partially sighted (BPS) people are one of the most disadvantaged groups with regards to employment. Currently in the TR alone, of the 273,915 BPS people of working age only 15% are in employment compared with the national average of over 80%. Currently there is no definitive number of BPS for Europe but if we extrapolate these figures as a portion of the working age population across Eur ...
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