The Able to Include Project wants to help people with intellectual disabilities in all parts of their lives. A lot of people with intellectual disabilities want to get jobs. To get a job, they need a lot of skills. For
Building Bridges Training (in short, BBT) is an organisation from the United Kingdom. They talked to many people with intellectual disabilities to find out what type of technology their use and what they do when they go online. They found
Thomas More is a University in Belgium. They are also partners in the Able to Include Project. Thomas More wanted to see what people with intellectual disabilities know about social media and what they expect when they go online. Thomas More
The University of Leuven is a partner in the Able to Include Project. Leuven is a city in Belgium. The University of Leuven is making a computer programme to change words into pictures. This programme will help people with intellectual
In December 2014, Able to Include partner Teamnet released the first prototype for the text-to-speech service that will act as a core component of the Accessibility Layer. The prototype of the TTS Service uses ESPEAK as the Text To Speech
One aim of the Able-to-Include European project is to make text simplification technology available for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. The TALN group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona is leading the development and adaptation of technology to simplify
One of the prerequisites of developing accessible software for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is truly understanding how they use technology, and what their needs and requirements are. Therefore, to facilitate the creation of the accessibility layer, the final
In order to gather insight on the current knowledge and expectations of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities regarding social media, researchers from Thomas More organized several focus groups with our target group, but also with their coaches. In addition
ABLE-TO-INCLUDE aims to improve the quality of life of people with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities (IDD) by creating a new open User Centred Accessibilty Layer that will empower our target group to use internet and social media applications on their
Innovative technology company Ariadna Servicios Informáticos presented the Able to Include project to an audience of stakeholders at the ‘Ciudades que caminan’ (Walking Cities) Congress in Pontevedra in October 2014. The project was introduced to academics, organisations from the intellectual
