G3ict's Good Practice Showcase

This week, G3ict is showcasing the following exemplary projects:

Loadstone Accessible GPS
Loadstone-GPS is a useful navigational tool for everyone, it is particularly useful for blind and visually impaired people using screen readers such as Talks (TM) (a Nuance product) and Mobile Speak (TM) (a Code Factory product).

BBC's and AbilityNet's Web Accessibility Partnership: My Web, My Way
BBC and AbilityNet create a new website that strives to help equip its audience with the tools and understanding which will enable them to make the most of the world-wide web (not just bbc.co.uk) - regardless of ability or disability.

NPR's Accessible Digital Radio
NPR Lab's design of mass-market digital radio services, which aims to provide radio access to consumers with sensory disabilities.

The European ASK-IT Project
ASK-IT is an integrated project, partly funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Program, e-Inclusion, which aims to create a service using ICTs to help improve the everyday lives and independence of mobility-challenged individuals in European cities through mobile devices than can access relevant and real-time information.

IBM Italy's Mobile Wireless Accessibility (MWA) Project
IBM Italy's MWA Project seeks to design a mobile device with a unique ergonomic architecture that would enable persons with disabilities - particularly blind users - to shift all of the activities that or conventionally carried out on traditional desktops and standard phones to an accessible mobile device.