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Follow on Google News | Students of Tomsk State University are developing an application for persons with visual disordersEvgeny Sidnev, Artem Pomiluyko and Stanislav Rychagov (Sapunity company), second-year students of Physics and Technology Department, are developing a web application called RIW: Internet without Restrictions.
By: Tomsk State University “RIW is a cloud application for persons with visual disorders (color-blindness, eye lens degeneration, partial loss of vision, blindness). To find the required information on the Internet, they mostly use screen readers and have to face the fact that such programs do not read many website elements”, Evgeny Sidnev told. “Such elements include Flash contents, pop-up windows, dropdown menus, etc. Our application will solve such problems being able to present the necessary information to users.” The students’ application quasi draws the information out from hardly accessible elements, and as a result, screen readers can read it aloud to users. That being said, the web page’s structure remains intact. You don’t have to install the application: At the present moment, Sapunity founded by the students is a resident of “Druzhba”, an inter-university business incubator. The students hope to get the necessary investments for their project’s development in a short time. The students’ work was highly appreciated. They got a certificate for passing the first stage of selection for an international group called “100 Innovators” supported by the Youth Program of “Open Innovations” Free online beta-testing of the application will start soon. Contact telephone: 8 952 899 05 57 (Evgeny Sidnev). End
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