Last Update: April, 2024 Notes Apps4Android Mobile Applications Date Released Download Source Installations Developing audio tour apps for 22 museums. This is a work in progress. Funded by: The White House American Rescue Plan 3-Mar-23 – April-24 Not yet released Developed an audio tour app of various exhibits at Fort Griswold and […]
IDEAL Group has transformed into a corporation that prioritizes both its business goals and its commitment to social responsibility and philanthropy. Throughout its evolution from IDEAL at AT&T and AT&T Project Freedom to IDEAL at NCR Corporation, IDEAL Group has emerged as a pioneering leader in the creation of accessibility products and services. IDEAL’s products […]
Link to this OER Commons Group Goals Objective: Mitigate/eliminate issues associated with LLMs Link to this OER Commons Group: https://oercommons.org/groups/ai-enabled-oer-commons-support-for-students-with-l/14795/ This group investigates the advantages of employing IDEAL Group’s Textbook-Based Model (TBM), which adapts open textbooks from OER Commons (and other OER resources) to produce tailored content for students with learning and cognitive […]
Contents: Open Textbooks Public Domain Audiobooks Diagrams and Graphs Clip Art, Images, and Graphics Multi-Purpose Platforms Sounds, Music, Sound Effects Videos Virtual Manipulatives Open Textbooks: American Memory Project (Library of Congress): The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and […]
2024 Developing a suite of AI solutions in support of K-12 Students with learning, cognitive, and neurological print disabilities. More details are forthcoming. 2023-2024 Writing a soon-to-be-released Guidebook 2023 Launched Project aiA11y.io Mission: “shape a future where accessibility is foundational to our innovative pursuits. As we navigate this new era, our focus is to ensure […]
2023-2024 Developing Accessible Audio Tour Apps for 22 Museums Objective: To make outdoor museum exhibits come alive with human-narrated audio tours. The mobile apps (iOS and Android) will be accessible to individuals with print disabilities. The tour apps are being designed to function in outdoor spaces that do not have internet/Wi-Fi connectivity or are not in […]
The history of IDEAL Group, Inc. is a fascinating journey of evolution and innovation, particularly in the field of accessibility and technology for individuals with disabilities. Here is a cohesive history based on the information from their website: AT&T Acquisition of NCR Corporation (1991): AT&T’s objective was to capitalize on the burgeoning personal computer and […]
Credits IDEAL Group achieved many “development firsts” that set the stage for other software/hardware developers to build upon. And they did! IDEAL Group innovations have been woven into the fabric of the high-tech ecosystems that enable billions of consumers to live more independent lives. List of IDEAL Group’s “Development Firsts” December 1992 – March 1994 […]
uCaption® Generation II – Migration of uCaption® to Google’s Firebase Infrastructure Year(s) Developed: 2018-2019 Objective: The objective of developing uCaption is to provide an alternative to professional CART services (and not replace) in situations where the use of professional CART services are not logistically, technically, or financially possible. About: uCaption, a real-time text-streaming caption correction […]
The evolutionary stages of IDEAL Group, over the past 30 years, are as follows: AT&T Project Freedom (January 1992 – December 1996) IDEAL at AT&T (December 1993 – December 1996) IDEAL at NCR (January 1997 – December 2002) IDEAL Group, Inc. spin-off from NCR as a nonprofit corporation (January 2002 – May 2003) Reincorporated IDEAL Group as […]