Theme: AACs for ALL is an international collaborative research and innovation project funded by the EUREKA Eurostars Programme. eAccessibility concerns the design of ICT products and services so that they can be used by people with disabilities, whether of a permanent or temporary nature, and by older people with age-related changes in functional capacities. The Technological goal of AACs for ALL is to tackle the eAccessibility challenge by creating:
 
1. a broad Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the integration of present and future emergent AACs products (properly transformed into eServices), in order to retain all the technological complexities “hidden” for ALL users and to offer only eServices in a user-centric, intuitive and flexible way to accommodate everybody.
2. integration into this SOA of innovative speech technologies
 
The business goal is to make available to all a straightforward Provision Service on-demand for easily deploying user-centric eAccessibility services. eAccessibility in AACs for ALL transpires across the full spectrum of AACs products and services, including telecommunications services and equipment, TV services and equipment, websites, self-service terminals such as bank machines, consumer electronics and so on. Improvement of the accessibility of AACs can be beneficial to everyone, by making ICTs more usable in general as well as facilitating their usage in a wide variety of situations (e.g. hands-free usage, in noisy or poor lighting environments, and so on).
 
Qualia contributes to the project research on speaker diarization and large-vocabulary speech recognition. We also work on focused web robots and web information extraction methods.