Building for Accessibility
There are a few principles to think about when designing products for the widest use. Check out our Building for Accessibility Guide to make sure you have them in mind as you’re planning your solution.
Did you miss the 4/18-19 NYU Ability Hackathon?
Not to worry, check out some of the presentations below.
- Xian's presentation (Watch the recording of Xian's presenation)
- Paul's presentation (Watch the recording of Paul's presenation)
- Watch the recording of Gus's presentation
- Technology for clinical research in speech-language pathology
- Gaming, Cognitive Rehabilitation and Harnessing Neuroplasticity
- Real-Time Conversations: From TTY to Real-Time Text (RTT)
APIs, Data, and Reference Material
Although no specific API or data integration is required, participants will need to explain how their solution “solves”a problem for people with disabilities, based on the five submission category requirements. Here are a few APIs, datasets, and studies you might find useful.
ADA / Disabilities Government websites
Developer-specific Accessibility Guidelines
Standards and Research Papers
- Universal design
- RESNA and ANSI/ISO standards for development of Assistive Technology
- RESNA Research Guidelines
- MJ Fuhrer, JW Jutai, MJ Scherer, and F DeRuyter. (2003).A framework for the conceptual modelling of assistive technology device outcomes. Disability and Rehabilitation, Vol. 25, No. 22 , Pages 1243-1251 (doi:10.1080/09638280310001596207)
- David McNaughton, and Janice Light. (2013). The iPad and Mobile Technology Revolution: Benefits and Challenges for Individuals who require Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Vol. 29, No. 2 , Pages 107-116 (doi:10.3109/07434618.2013.784930)
APIs /SDKs
Mobile computer vision / Graphics:
- OpenCV: Computer Vision
- FastCV: Qualcomm ARM-optimized Computer Vision library
- NVIDIA Tegra APIs: Developer tools for mobile GPU
- Tutorial on CV for iOS
Speech / voice recognition:
- Android
- Web Speech API
- Apple
- Dragon SpeechKit
- openEars (free for iOS)
- CEED Vocal
- Watson Speech to Text
- AT&T Speech
Geolocation:
- Android
- iOS
- Google Maps API
- Dedicated Short Range Communications FAQ
- WiFi Peer-to-Peer API
- Windows Sensor API
- Android Sensor API
- Wheelmap API
Wearable/Hardware:
- Google Glass SDK
- Google Mirror for Web integration on Google Glass
- Pebble SDK
- Samsung Wearables SDK
- Android Wear Developer Preview
- Natural User Interface for Kinect for Windows
- Beyond Wellness API for wearables
- Hover for Arduino
- Adafruit Flora (Wearables Microcontroller)
- Adafruit Gemma (Wearables Microcontroller)
- Arduino LilyPad (Wearables Microcontroller)
- Adafruit BlueFruit LE (BLE Interface)
- Android Bluetooth Low Energy API
- IOS Bluetooth Low Energy API
- Windows Bluetooth Low Energy API
- IOS Development Center (Apple)
- OpenLTE (3GPP Implementation)