Welcome

Welcome to the web pages of the Parallel UI Rendering project, also known as PUIR (pronounced 'pure'). The goal of this project is to provide non-visual access to graphical user interfaces (GUIs) by means of rendering abstract user interface (AUI) descriptions. Whereas currently accessibility technologies focus largely on trying to interpret the graphical presentation in a non-visual way, PUIR aims to provide accessibility at a higher level, using the actual description of the user interface (UI) rather than the rendering.

These pages also provide information about side projects that were developed throughout the course of the design and development of PUIR, and as part of the underlying doctoral research. The source code for projects is available as open source software.

This project also represents the ongoing work towards a doctorate at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, under the supervision of Prof. dr. ir. Jan Engelen and Prof. dr. Gerhard Weber (TU Dresden).

Projects

The following projects (both past and current) are available:

• Parallel UI Rendering (PUIR)
• Simulated Braille Display (jBRL)
• Java Text-To-Speech (jTTS)
• JSAPI for Fonix DECtalk (jDTK)
• Distributed Cache Objects (DCO)

Latest News

On Mar 23rd, 2012, the doctoral examination jury rendered the unanimous decision to approve revisions to the dissertation. The revisions were requested by the jury following the preliminary defence on Oct 5th, 2011. The current decision clears the way for a publc defence (date to be determined).