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Lille Metropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM)
"Tag My LaM" is a new technology for museum visitors' use on their smartphones. Undertaken with IBM and Urbilog, the application enables visitors to stroll through the museum’s sculpture park and hear information in the language of their choice about the closest nearby sculpture on their smartphones. For visually impaired visitors, an audio version of the information is also available.
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City of Bolzano — Home healthcare smart sensors help keep Italian seniors living in place
The city is sponsoring the Secure Living project—created by the IBM Human Centric Solution Centers Europe, IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center, IBM Hursley Emerging Technologies Lab, TIS Innovation Park, the technological park of Bolzano, and Dr. Hein GmbH—to help seniors safely 'age in place' at home.
City of Nettuno
Nettuno developed an interactive service providing real-time accessibility information via a free smartphone application that identifies which town buildings provide easy and safe access.
2005 World Exposition
With the addition of Easy Web Browsing to the 2005 World Expo Web site, senior citizens and people with visual impairments were able to use the Web site more easily.
California State University, Long Beach
IBM WebAdapt2Me enables campus community members – as well as alumni – to more easily access a variety of Web sites and Web applications, helping the University realize its vision of full inclusion.
Cleveland Sight Center
Founded in 1906, the Cleveland Sight Center provides educational, rehabilitative and support services for thousands of people in the greater Cleveland area who are blind or visually impaired. IBM provided a strategic business assessment and technology roadmap that outlines the center's accessibility and adaptive technology needs by consumer group and focus area.
Italian Senate
The IBM team redesigned the Italian Senate's Web site to meet W3C WAI WCAG standards. The Italian Senate was honored with an "Osc@r of the web" award for the "Best Public Administration and Public Utility" Web site in November, 2006.
Kyoto City
IBM helped establish an accessible Web site that is attracting the global community. In addition, the accessibility features have been credited with helping to increase Web traffic.
Mitsukoshi
Mitsukoshi, the oldest and one of the most prestigious retail stores in Japan, worked with IBM to create a more accessible Web site for summer gift promotions.
Oxfordshire County Council in the UK
IBM partnered with the Oxfordshire County Council to create cost-effective, accessible, engaging e-learning materials for it's 6,000 Council and partner agency staff.
Travis County, Texas
IBM and Hamer Enterprises planned, developed, and deployed a Web site solution that is more accessible to Travis County's 800,000+ constituents.