[accessibleimage] Technical Drawings - Accessible Conversion

Technical Drawings - Accessible Conversion

Free software allowing vision-impaired software engineers to read
technical drawings produced in many common formats has been released
following a two-year European Commission-funded research project.

Technical Drawings Understanding for the Blind (TeDUB -
http://www.tedub.org/ <http://www.tedub.org/>  ) has been headed by
the
TeDUB Consortium which comprises partners from the UK, Germany,
Ireland,
Italy and the Netherlands.

TeDUB works by uploading diagrams, such as the "box and pointer"
diagrams often used to design family trees, to a web site where they
are
converted into a compatible format and then emailed back to the user.
It
has been designed to work best with diagrams created in Unified
Modeling
Language (UML), a coding language often used by software engineers to
represent real-world objects.

The system also allows vision-impaired users to move around diagrams
with a joystick. It provides basic sound to accompany navigation
allowing users to hear where they are, and is also compatible with
screen readers.

The software is available by download from the TeDUB web site where
tutorials and examples of UML diagrams can also be found. It is funded
by the sixth framework of the European Commission's Information
Society
Technologies research program - http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ 
<http://www.cordis.lu/ist/> .

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