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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Sun, Mar 06 2005 7:07PM
Subject: Visual Impairment Simulator for Microsoft Windows
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A senior design computer science student group at the
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign has developed a
near real time Visual Impairment Simuulatotr. This is the
second release of the software and includes improved
sumulation of visual impairments and screen capture feature to
save bit mapped images of the screen with the simulation.

http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/vis/download.html

Please download and try the software and provide feedback on
the current features and any problems that you have installing
or using the software. The students only have few more months
before the end of the class.

Jon




Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Director of IT Accessibility Services
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
and
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES)

Voice: (217) 244-5870
Fax: (217) 333-0248

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Mon, May 02 2005 3:23PM
Subject: Visual Impairment Simulator for Microsoft Windows final BETA release
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This is the last beta release of the Visual Impairment
Simulator for Microsoft Windows, please download and try the
simulator and provide feebdback on any bugs this week if
possible. Only bugs will be repaired, no new features please.

New Features:
1. Screenshots can be exported to the clipboard
2. Diabetic Retinopathy impairment added
3. Across-the-board updates of impairment accuracy
4. New interface for controlling mouse displacement
5. Magnifier tool added
6. Dynamic preview of the impairments added

Installation
1. REMOVE any previous version of the simulator "VIS" in "Add
Remove Programs".

2. Download new version:
http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/vis/?status=download

3. Install software.

Jon


Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Director of IT Accessibility Services
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
and
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES)

Voice: (217) 244-5870
Fax: (217) 333-0248

E-mail: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =

WWW: http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/
WWW: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jongund/www/