Date Posted: July 7, 2004
Overview
What is aDesigner?
This technology has graduated.
aDesigner has been donated to the Eclipse Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF) project. You can download it directly from the ACTF aDesigner download page.
About the technology author(s)
This technology was developed by the following engineers at the IBM® Tokyo Research Laboratory:
Shin Saito""s research interests include Web accessibility, Web usability, and static analysis of mark-up and programming languages. He is a member of the ACM and JSSST.
Kentarou Fukuda, Ph.D., is interested in Web accessibility, Web application development, and multimedia systems. He is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
Hironobu Takagi, Ph.D., has conducted research and development on nonvisual computer interfaces. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IPSJ, and JSSST.
Junji Maeda was named a Master Inventor at IBM Research in 2003. His research interests include Web accessibility, image and video processing, and digital media. Mr. Maeda is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, IPSJ, and IEICE.
Hisashi "Himi" Miyashita works on XML processing, distributed computing, and accessibility. He has contributed many free software and open-source projects such as the Meadow project and the IIIMF project at OpenI18N WG.
Daisuke Sato""s research interests include human computer interaction, Web accessibility, and Web usability. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
Tatsuya Ishihara""s research interests include Web accessibility, Web usability, and pattern recognition. He is a member of the ACM and IEICE.
Takashi Itoh is an advisory software engineer. His many years of software development experience include operating systems, device drivers, speech synthesis, Eclipse tools for WebSphere, and Home Page Reader.
Chieko Asakawa, Ph.D., is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Since 1985, she has conducted research and development on nonvisual computer interfaces for the blind; these interfaces include the Home Page Reader (1997). Dr. Asakawa received recognition from the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1999 and was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 2003. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, ACM, IEICE, and IPSJ.
