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F: Al Gilman from Wisconsin Trace Center on Universal Access -- Standard Format
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F: 1. Project description (one or two sentence description)
F: Universal Design for Disability Access.  Leverage the learnings of
F: Universal Design in developing Advanced Computational Infrastructure.
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F: 2. PACI relevance of the project (how it relates to PACI goals/strategies)
F: PACI strives to be the computing platform of the future.  Satisfying the
F: needs of people with disabilities up front through universal design is a
F: cost-effective way to make technology more effective as used by the general
F: public.  One of the major challenges as PACI technology approaches the
F: field is to broaden the user base it has been exposed to.  Most of these
F: technologies start out with an infinitessimal human community of users 
F: and hence the diversity of user abilities and learning styles has not been addressed.
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F: 3. Potential audience or user base
F: Developers of advanced client-server and agent-net applications.
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F: 4. Partnership links both internal (AT/ET/EOT) and external; can include
F: potential "targets of opportunity" for partnership 
F: Current linkage: W3C web specifications development through W3C Web
F: Accessibility Initiative.
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F: Potential linkage: NPACI Interaction Environments thrusts through
F: development of disability-adaptive morphs of interaction environments.  
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F: Potential linkage: any collaborative-environment infrastructure for
F: flexibility in inserting assistive modules particularly middleware in
F: task-support nets.
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F: 5. Diversity and universal access issues
F: Mostly the objective is that Advanced Computational Infrastructure should
F: not deny usability (and therefore access) to people with disabilities.
F: There are related sub-goals dealing with scalability of interaction
F: environments to mass market and mobile devices that are synergistic with
F: gaining universal access to educational resources on the Web for people
F: with economic and geographical barriers as well.
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F: 6. Barriers (with technology or other areas)
F: Mostly it it a question of follow-through.  Visualization techniques are
F: not pressed beyond visual presentation because the value of digging deeper
F: and genericizing the techniques is not fully appreciated.  In a community
F: like PACI where there is so much information in play that even 3D
F: visualization only takes a small bite out of the situation, it is easier to
F: find people with the vision to relate view extraction problems at all levels.
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F: 7. Status of project (i.e. planning, development, production)
F: UD/DA in general is an ongoing project in EOT-PACI funded in part by both
F: partnerships.  
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F: 8. Dissemination avenues - contributions to the literature (i.e. reviewed
F: journals, conference presentations, etc.)
F: The primary dissemination avenue for UD/DA progress is via standard
F: interfaces in the information technology industry, from the Windows bible
F: to HTML and HTTP, to emerging standards such as IMS.
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