AXS Technologies, Wright State University Make Online Museum Collection Accessible to Disabled.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers ANNAPOLIS, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2001 AXS' EyeSpy Image Server Selected to Power Dayton Art Institute's Virtual Tour AXS AXS Access AXS Anomalous X-Ray Scattering AXS Alpha Chi Sigma AXS Alpha X-Ray Spectrometer AXS Activex Script Technologies, whose patented parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. technology increases the speed at which high quality digital images are viewed, today announced that Wright State University's Accessible Arts! program, a Dayton, Ohio-based organization dedicated to making the arts available to all people, has purchased AXS' EyeSpy(TM) Image Server. Accessible Arts! will use EyeSpy to develop an online virtual tour of approximately 100 pieces from The Dayton Art Institute's collection of African, American, Asian and European art. "We selected EyeSpy because, in addition to its remarkable speed and its zoom, pan and resize Verb 1. resize - change the size of; make the size more appropriate size - make to a size; bring to a suitable size rescale - establish on a new scale features, it offers alternative ways to access and navigate images," said Adam Alonzo, Accessible Arts! Coordinator. "From 17th century Baroque paintings to contemporary images, EyeSpy will help us bring the joy of art to people with disabilities who might not be able to maneuver these images using only a mouse." The use of a mouse in computer-based functions involves repetitive hand motion and significant hand-eye coordination hand-eye coordination Eye-hand coordination Surgery Oculomanual synchronization, required by surgeons, especially for laparoscopic surgery. See Laparoscopic surgery, Paradoxical movement. , both of which can be challenging for individuals whose disabilities affect their hands, arms, visual capabilities or motor skills. The creation of alternatives for performing standard computer operations, such as EyeSpy's 'Tab' key functionality to replace reliance on the mouse, enhances a technology's "accessibility" by allowing people with disabilities to fully utilize that technology. To further expand EyeSpy's accessibility features, Web developers can incorporate recorded commentaries, enabling people with severely impaired vision to experience images online. "Accessibility, which is traditionally associated with building construction, is now a key concern in Web architecture," said Katharine Dixon, AXS VP of Marketing. "EyeSpy allows Web developers to incorporate high quality, size-limitless images into their sites, and make these images available instantaneously via a click of the mouse or a press of the Tab key A keyboard key that moves the cursor to the next tab stop. See tab. . AXS is proud to be one of the only companies in the imaging industry to offer this kind of accessibility." The Dayton Art Institute's virtual tour will be available in the fall of 2001 via the museum's Web site at www.daytonartinstitute.org. About AXS Technologies www.axstech.com AXS Technologies has developed and patented software technologies that exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. increase the speed at which high quality digital imagery is accessed and deployed. Its products utilize cutting-edge parallel processing technology to set new standards in digital imagery by allowing commodity PCs to access in real time, high-resolution raster The horizontal lines (scan lines) displayed on a TV or computer monitor. This is the origin of the term "raster graphics," which is the major category that all bitmapped images and video frames fall into (GIF, JPEG, MPEG, etc.). image extractions with supercomputer supercomputer, a state-of-the-art, extremely powerful computer capable of manipulating massive amounts of data in a relatively short time. Supercomputers are very expensive and are employed for specialized scientific and engineering applications that must handle very performance. AXS Technologies is part of HPI HPI abbr. history of present illness Holdings SA, a publicly traded Swiss investment company. It is headquartered in Annapolis, Md. with research and development facilities in Lausanne, Switzerland. EyeSpy(TM), EyeSpy Express(TM) and MapPix(TM) are Trademarks of AXS Technologies, Inc. About Accessible Arts! Accessible Arts! is a program of Wright State University's Office of Disability Services, funded by the Rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Education to provides ongoing arts experiences for people with disabilities, promote performance and exhibition opportunities for disabled artists, and support arts groups for people with disabilities and for individual artists and their families. |
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