DevCSI | Developer Community Supporting Innovation » SAM http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:06:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 SAM – Video: Martin Hamilton – Pitch 48 – Day 2 http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2009/09/15/sam-video-martin-hamilton-pitch-48-day-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sam-video-martin-hamilton-pitch-48-day-2 http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2009/09/15/sam-video-martin-hamilton-pitch-48-day-2/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:13:40 +0000 devcsi-team http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/demonstrator/?p=1198 Structural – Semantics for Accessibility and MobilityThe creation of a user agent extension which can make sense of the implicit structural layout of a Web-page and adapt it into a format suitable for a Mobile device.Mobile Accessibility for users, low developer / designer effort in creation.We are talking to:For more information, please visit:

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Simon Harper is based at the University of Manchester and is working on the Structural – Semantics for Accessibility and Mobility (SAM) project…

What is SAM?

Structural-semantics for Accessibility and Mobility (SAM) is an infrastructure that allows webpages designed for desktops to be transformed into websites that are suitable for disables access, access on mobiles and for enhanced personalisation – provided that they are CSS compliant.What problems/issues is SAM tackling?How to deploy the system in a more industrial setting.How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?We would like them to upload mappings to our systems for their own sites, so their sites can be transformed, or to use our software and spot any problems for us!What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?The Eclipse project – we are commiters on the accessibiity tools framework, which is the main community.  We have also done some stuff with Firefox extensions through the community there.What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?

I think its not the educational software – its the users.  The users are building their own mashups and systems with the gadgets they want to use, picking and choosing their own way.  So I am most excited about how they are using the technology for their own education, rather than just using what they’re told.
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