Using the Cloud to Improve Access for the Disabled
From: Campus Technology - 12/05/2013
By: Mary Axelson

A new initiative aims to give students with disabilities unfettered access to
the internet by using the cloud to automatically customize any device for
their needs.

Technology now plays such an integral role in our lives that we tend to take
it for granted. People with disabilities, however, don't have that luxury. In
fact, unless society makes a concerted effort to ensure that technology is
inclusive, we risk isolating people with disabilities. A new project run by
Raising the Floor, a consortium of more than 60 academic institutions,
businesses and non-governmental organizations, hopes to level the playing
field. The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII), as the initiative
is known, will use a cloud-based service to automatically configure
internet-connected devices to meet the needs of individual users with
disabilities. As the GPII site avows, the goal is to build "an on-demand,
personalized, accessible on-ramp to the internet".

Read the entire article at:
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/12/05/using-the-cloud-to-improve-access-for-the-disabled.aspx

Links:
Raising the Floor
http://raisingthefloor.org/

Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure
http://gpii.net/