CORDA Technologies Hosts National Cancer Institute "Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs" Using PopChart D to Assist the Visually Impaired.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LINDON
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Lindon is the land beyond the Ered Luin (Blue Mountains) in the northwest of Middle-earth. It is the westernmost land of the continent. , Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001 Now Visually Impaired Can "See" Charts and Graphs with Screen Reader CORDA Technologies Inc. (www.corda.com), a Lindon-based developer of fast, interactive Web-based charting and graphing solutions, Monday Monday: see week. announced that the National Cancer Institute (NCI See Liberate. ) has gone live with its "Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs" Web site utilizing PopChart.com, a hosted Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the chart publishing service. The Web site, located at http://www.nci.nih.gov/atlasplus/, ranks 40 different cancers for all 50 states and their 3,000 counties. The NCI site allows a visitor to find and view the cancer mortality rate at the national, state or county level for any of the 40 cancers tracked and sort by age, gender, time period, and ethnic background. With all of the capability of the site, there are over 5 million different chart and graph combinations that can be requested and viewed from the database. The site also complies with the Federal Information Technology Accessibility Initiative (Section 508), which requires that federal agencies' electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities including the visually impaired. CORDA provided custom development for the site. The large amount of information is available for searching using the drill down feature so that specific data can be accessed with a mouse click. D-link D-Link Corporation is a Taiwanese company that manufactures wireless and Ethernet computer networking products for both consumer and SOHO users. The company was founded in 1986 by Ken Kao, Current CEO and Chairman. The corporate headquarters are located in Taipei, Taiwan. descriptive text is attached to each graph so that a visually impaired individual can understand the contents of the graph with the use of a screen reader. The drill down feature is also active with the D-link descriptive text so that the visually impaired can gain access to the same additional information. "As a somewhat visually-challenged federal employee, I have a special appreciation for D-link functionality. PopChart (D) gives visually-impaired visually-impaired visual adj → malvoyant(e) individuals the ability to 'see' graphs with the use of descriptive text," said Dan J. Grauman, computer specialist at the National Cancer Institute. "I am pleased that PopChart (D) enabled the National Cancer Institute's 'Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs' Web page to be the first at the National Institutes of Health, to be compliant
CORDA Technologies is the global leader in providing fast, interactive, data-driven charts and graphs and the first company to provide a solution with D-link descriptive text for the visually impaired that is Section 508 compliant. With more flexibility, scalability How much a system can be expanded. See scalable. scalability - How well a solution to some problem will work when the size of the problem increases. For example, a central server of some kind with ten clients may perform adequately but with a thousand clients it and speed than any other charting solutions, CORDA's family of tools and services are the leading choice for fast and easy-to-build charts and graphs. CORDA's solutions display data as visual images allowing customers to explore relationships, perform analysis and more easily understand their data. |
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