Introduction The Internet Archive has long served as a vital resource for students with disabilities, offering accessible educational materials that address barriers to learning and participation. As debates around copyright and digital access intensify, the potential shutdown of the Internet Archive raises urgent questions about educational equity and disability rights. This paper examines the specific […]
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Steve Jacobs President, and CEO IDEAL Group, Inc. Home: https://ideal-group.org Email: steve.jacobs@ideal-group.org 10080 Gerich Lilly Rd. West Jefferson, OH 43162 Cell: (614) 777-0660 TTY: 711 Speech to Speech Steve Jacobs serves as the CEO of IDEAL Group, Inc., which he spun off from IDEAL at NCR Corporation in 2002. Jacobs has dedicated over five decades […]
Thank you to the following individuals for helping IDEAL Group achieve its “Development Firsts”. Saurabh Gupta, IDEAL Group CTO; Stacy Hoyle Wiparina, Past IDEAL at NCR Vice President; Now in her heavenly home. ♥ Charles Chen, Google Engineer; Our many talented developers; and, Katie Robinson, Certified literary Braille transcriber and independent accessibility analyst God bless […]
IDEAL Group, a 2002 spinoff from IDEAL at NCR Corporation 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 Bell Labs Project Freedom to IDEAL at NCR Corporation, IDEAL Group has emerged as a pioneering leader […]
IDEAL Group, Inc. (Apps4Android Team) Source Code Repositories: com.fsck.idealk9.html Source Code: http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk | HTML | 51 lines com.ideal.magnifier.html Source Code: http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk | HTML | 66 lines com.ideal.webaccess.html Source Code: http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk | HTML | 54 lines customizing.html Source Code: http://eyes-free.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ | HTML | 119 lines Easy Access for Android: Source Code: https://github.com/saurabh2590/EasyAccess Source Code: http://www.java2s.com/example/java-src/pkg/org/easyaccess/phonedialer/callstateservice-fba67.html#google_vignette Google […]
Accessible Apps on Android – Steve Jacobs of IDEAL Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzVwA4_AMLs An AT&T Bell Labs Video: The Birth of Video Relay Services (VRS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRQKWIarEQM Apps4Android Application Development and Testing Environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0T4x7xgGgo Ask Eindroid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNPjgu0t2E Ask Eindroid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVOUSn_NF7w Better Voices for Android Cupcake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqcXAny9_w4 CoolReader vs. the Kindle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHStDqj2Iro iAugComm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiyyNuliDPE iAugComm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOIXVaX3Y88 IDEAL Currency Identifier […]
IDEAL introduced IDEAL eBook Reader®, the first highly-featured, fully-accessible, multilingual, talking eBook reader on November 26, 2012. On January 24, 2013, the multilingual speech engine was acquired by Amazon. Here are some speech examples: Arabic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW0Qbt8bFlM Czech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEoxQ4vI4g Danish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwP3bcg56VU Dutch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQADtKlzgK8 English with embedded video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXQQZ-etSQ English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH5EJu6vQI English: Human Narrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9wJr8XfgKE English: Single […]
IDEAL Group, Inc. operates a socially driven, innovation-centric business model focused on the development of AI-based, inference-only educational solutions for students with neurocognitive disabilities. Central to IDEAL’s strategy is its “no-cost-to-the-user” philosophy, which has been core to its mission since 2009 and formally updated in 2022 to emphasize support for learners on individualized educational pathways. […]
IDEAL Group, Inc. operates a socially driven, innovation-centric business model focused on the development of AI-based, inference-only educational solutions for students with neurocognitive disabilities. Central to IDEAL’s strategy is its “no-cost-to-the-user” philosophy, which has been core to its mission since 2009 and formally updated in 2022 to emphasize support for learners on individualized educational pathways. […]