e-ISOTIS: a Full Partaker in the EURIDICE Project to evaluate and validate an accessible e-learning

EURIDICE: (EUropean Recommended materIals for Distance learnIng Courses for Educator)

The EURIDICE project intends to validate the sustainability of an accessible e-learning platform and to establish the basis for its further deployment. The EURIDICE service is based on a combination of technical instruments, contents, networking platforms and community of users and providers, who jointly aim at offering an open and trustful environment to the educational institutions across Europe. The project idea is to offer to the educational institutions a wide source of unique, premium and mostly unpublished contents from different providers, i.e.: archives, libraries and photographic repositories.
These contents will be accessible through a multilingual web based interface, and integrates dynamic watermarking and multi-resolution image zooming. These technologies represent a state-of-the-art solution, for the highest protection of the copyrights of the contents and the best accessibility to high quality images. Jpeg 2000 image compression technology will be integrated to provide smaller file size, full watermark, and colour support, region of interest and metadata.
Accessibility of the service to blind people is considered as a key factor for the success of the project.

e-ISOTIS within EURIDICE

e-ISOTIS (Information Society Open To ImpairmentS) is a non-profit making organisation founded in December 2002, representing People with Disabilities, Elderly, their spouses as well as members of the ICT (Information Communication Technology) community, worldwide. Currently, its associated members represent 350.000 people with impairments, located in European countries.
e-ISOTIS’ scope is to ensure that people with disabilities, elderly and their families are fully involved in the preparations and activities in line with the slogan "nothing about people with disabilities without people with disabilities". By supporting People with Disabilities and elderly, e-ISOTIS aims at assisting its members in overcoming the existing barriers and experiencing an Information Society that opens up new opportunities for development, prosperity and quality of life.
Within the EURIDICE project, e-ISOTIS is involved in the validation of the EURIDICE services by people with evaluation and the assessment of the e-accessibility of the service specifically for people with sensory and mobility disabilities.
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For More Information, please contact:
e-ISOTIS
40 Klitaimnistras
Athens 131 22
Greece
Phone:+30 210 2693760
Fax:+30 210 2693775
info@e-isotis.org

The EURIDICE project started on 01/08/2005 and will end on 31/01/2007. For extra details, you can also visit the project’s website: http://www.euridice-edu.org.

Date of release: 15/11/2005

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