http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Better Living Through Emerging Technologies en-us hodge@sunsite.utk.edu 2005-07-19T09:55:14-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/07/000169-test.html this is a test... 169@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2005-07-19T09:55:14-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/11/000154-captionkeeper_recycles_tv_captions_for_web_streaming.html WGBH's National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) announces the availability of software which enables closed captions created for broadcast and video to migrate to the Web. CaptionKeeper™ software automatically converts line-21 captions created for television or video into Web-streaming formats.... 154@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-11-02T14:21:03-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000145-the_kde_accessibility_project.html The KDE Accessibility Project (also by way of slashdot): "Our goal is to make the entirety of the K Desktop Environment and (by necessity) its underlying technologies usable by and as efficient as possible for disabled users of all types.... 145@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2004-09-29T13:18:50-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000144-sphinx.html Sphinx is a speaker-independent large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer under Berkeley's style license. It is also a collection of open source tools and resources that allows researchers and developers to build speech recognition system. Sphinx 4 (beta) was released September... 144@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2004-09-29T13:13:43-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000143-educators_increasing_use_of_video_streaming_for_the_deaf.html From the Ohio News Network, September 29, 2004: .....      "Nobody in the hearing world cared if the video was a little jerky because they had a soundtrack with it," said David Stecca, chief executive of Deaf Video Communications of America... 143@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2004-09-29T12:54:32-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/05/000083-accessibility_in_distance_education.html This site is a good guide for making online learning materials available to people with disabilities. Included are recommendations for delivering audio and video materials.... 83@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2004-05-24T13:41:19-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/04/000043-databases_of_assistive_technology.html Industry Canada has compiled this list of Web-based resources that catalogue assistive devices, their manufacturers and vendors and service providers and practitioners in the fields of assistive technology, rehabilitation and research.... 43@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2004-04-26T14:40:51-05:00