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Keep talking

From text to touch screen


Overview

• Where it all began• Technology changed the world• From text to touch screen• Keep talking


Where it all began


1st Century Magnifying glass

• Seneca the Younger writes:• "Letters, however small and indistinct, are

seen enlarged and more clearly through a globe or glass filled with water."


14th Century Eye-glasses

• Friar Alessandro della Spina makes corrective eye-glasses


1808 Typing machine

• Pellegrino Turri invents a typing machine


1876 Telephones

• Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone


1917 Condensing microphone

• EC Wente invents condenser microphone


1936 Artificial speech

• HW Dudley invents artificial talking machine


1952 Speech recognition

• Davis, Biddulph and Balasek invent first speech recognition device


Technology changed the world


1948 Transistor

• Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain invent the transistor


1955 Transistor computer

• Felker and Harris create first fully transistor based computer


1970 Xerox PARC

• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is established


1971 Email

• Ray Tomlinson sends first email over ARPANet


1974 Mouse

• Xerox Alto is first computer with mouse input


1981 Personal Computer

• IBM PC with DOS ignites the Personal Computer (PC) market


1983 Graphical User Interface

• Apple releases first PC with Graphical User Interface (GUI)


1984 Keyboard

• IBM ships first PC with keyboard peripheral


1985 Windows

• Windows 1.0 is released by Microsoft


1990 Web

• Tim Berners Lee proposes HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML)


1993 Mosaic

• Mosaic web browser is released


1994 Netscape Navigator

• Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released


1995 Internet Explorer

• Internet Explorer 1.0 is released


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1969 BCAB

• British Computer Association of the Blind (BCAB) is established


1978 Speak n Spell

• Speak n Spell is released


1986 IBM Screen Reader

• IBM Screen Reader is released


1989 Outspoken

• Outspoken for Macintosh is released


1990 IBM Screen Reader 2

• IBM Screen Reader 2 is released


1995 Jaws 1

• Jaws 1.0 is released by Henter Joyce


1995 Window-Eyes

• Window-Eyes is released by GW Micro

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2002 Jaws 4

• Jaws 4.0 is released, introducing quick navigation

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2005 VoiceOver

• VoiceOver is released with OSX10.4


2007 NVDA

• Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) is released by NV Access


2009 Mobile

• VoiceOver for iOS and TalkBack for Android are released


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2013 Tactile air

• Disney develops tactile air feedback


2013 Tactile 3D

• Disney prototypes 3D tactile interface


2013 Google Glass

• Google Glass goes into public beta


2011 Argus II

• Argus II visual prosthesis approved for clinical trial in the EU


2014 Contact lenses

• Prototype contact lenses relay images


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