Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure: Making Progress

Cognitive WAI March 2014

WHY create a GPII ?

What is the problem?

1. Solutions don’t exist for everyone

2. Some can’t afford solutions that are good enough to work with newer technologies

3. Solutions are too complicated

4. Even when a fit does exist – people can’t find it

5. Solutions don’t work across all of the different platforms/devices that people encounter and have to use

What is the GPII ?

An infrastructure that does 3 things

1.Makes it easy to find out what things will help a person to use digital interfaces (and stores the information in the cloud)

2.Invokes those features on any device the person encounters, anywhere, anytime.

3.Makes it easier and less expensive to create, market and support new solutions, internationally

What does this look like?

First, a person finds what works for them…

…and stores in the cloud

Developers create solutions and store them in the cloud

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

And an interface they can’t use…

Becomes one they can

Animation at http:// gpii.net

DEMO of GPII Auto-Personalization

http://tinyurl.com/NSF-NIST-GPII-DEMO

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

What makes it work?

Helping users find

out what will help them…

Providing access instantly, anywhere, onany device

Making it easier, lower-cost to create & market new solutions

Cloud4allUS Dept of Ed

User Awareness

Needs & PrefsDiscovery Aid

ShoppingAid

Needs & Prefs Storage

GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace

Users find out something exists

for them.

Users can find out which types of

things help them

Users can storeneeds & preferences

info for later use

Find all solutions, AT

& MainstreamDevice / feature / Service

Users can use their profile to find just what helps them

Find all solutions, AT

& Mainstreamdevice / feature / service

GPII Unified Listing& Marketplace

User Awareness

Users find out something exists

for them.

Needs & PrefsDiscovery Aid

Users can find out which types of

things help them

Needs & Prefs Storage

Users can storeneeds & preferences

info for later use

Shopping/Alerting Aid

Users can use their profile to find just what helps them

UIITA-RERC

GPII Library Implementation

PROSPERITY 4 ALL

Prefs & PermServer

Real TimeMatching

Media & Materials

Assistance on Demand (AOD)

User needs & prefs stored securely andavailable anywhere

Prefs and context used to determine best fit; here, now.

Auto- augmentationtransformation

and/or replacement

User can call up any assistance

anywhere

Delivery/Launch Management

Built-in + AT are auto-adjusted and

launched, anywhere

Prefs & PermServer

User needs & prefs stored securely andavailable anywhere

Real TimeMatching

Prefs and context used to determine best fit; here, now.

Delivery/Launch Management

Built-in + AT are auto-adjusted and

launched, anywhere

User can call up any assistance

anywhere

Assistance on Demand (AOD)

Media & Materials

Auto- augmentationtransformation

and/or replacement

Developers’Space

GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace

Free & commercialparts to speed dev,

and lower costs

Developers can quickly, efficientlymarket worldwide

Consumers & Experts

Connection

Experts, consumers,testers etc to helpnew developers

Micro-FinanceMicro-PaymentInfrastructure

Mechanism for Financing R&D and Service Del

ServiceCreation Tools

To make it easy to Create AOD, Media,& Material service

Developers’Space

Free & commercialparts to speed dev,

and lower costs

Consumers & Experts

Connection

Experts, consumers,testers etc to helpnew developers

Micro-FinanceMicro-PaymentInfrastructure

Mechanism for Financing R&D and Service Del

GPII Unified Listing & Marketplace

Developers can quickly, efficientlymarket worldwide

ServiceCreation Tools

To make it easy to Create AOD, Media,& Material service

Fluid/Floe

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,

Behind the Scenes

• Working mainstream standards efforts

– ePub

– Indie UI User Context seeding use case

for user preferences

• Developer tools

• …

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?

Thank youhttp:// 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.