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Up one levelGeneral OATS REPOSITORY (I.e USER SIDE) news.
OATS site launched!
The world's first website dedicated listing and developing Open Source Assistive Technology was launched today!
OATS in Computer Weekly
The OATS project is published in computer weekly - a leading UK wide computer magazine.
OATS at Open Source Conference
OATS project was presented at the FLOSSIE 2005 conference at Bolton Technical Innovation Centre.
OATS FLOSSIE Presentation
Presentation given at FLOSSIE conference (see news item) - powerpoint slide show.
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OATS Presentation to the British Computer Society
The British Computer Society Open Source Specialist Group is holding a meeting dedicated to the OATS project.
OATS developer given prestigious Mozilla grant
Steve Lee, a key OATS developer, has been awarded a grant to improve the switch accessibility of the popular FireFox browser.
BBC 'In Business' program documents progress of Open Source
An excellent program detailing the growing open source movement, it's business model and it's effect on the 'traditional' software business.
OATS presented at Schoolforg-Uk FLOSSIE
David Colven of the Ace centre and Steve Lee presented OATSoft at this years Schoolforge-UK's FLOSSIE.
iPhone accessible?
Read this blog of a blog for a fascinating insight into the barriers that usability/accessibility has to climb to make people realise that usable (thus accessible) stuff is cool... Try using your iPhone whilst driving (or any other eyes-busy task) and then see how cool you think it is!
Firefox improves access keys
Firefox, the popular open source web browser, have improved their use of 'accesskeys' which enable you to browse just using the keyboard.