I have been writing on this Wordpress blog for weeks, writing some code in the meantime. Now I think it is time to reveal what I have done to the rest of the world!
There are only three active pages besides the home page, but others are coming with docs, pictures and other downloads.
In the demo section you can now try a couple of working demos of the original project, but I will (hopefully) publish the rest of my work very soon. I am still working on the functionality which allows Farfalla to render web pages correctly and I will only release a new demo when this is fixed.
Any comment on these articles will be appreciated!
This project started in September 2006, when I, Andrea Mangiatordi, started writing my thesis at the end of my second level degree in Communication and Multimedia Publishing.
It was developed with a particular person in mind, with only some features designed around her. Now she is still using it, and she finds it useful as a support to her studies.
Now Farfalla is the core of a Doctoral project, and even if nothing has changed in the original idea of working side by side with disabled people, something has changed in its purposes. The idea is now to provide a flexible instrument to access websites (and consequently, to send emails, compose documents, etc.) while giving the user the opportunity to choose between different instruments for accessing the pages. The already existing writing aid will become part of a family of instruments, which can include text-to-speech, vocal browsing and pointing device emulation.
With this new website I will try to keep the project development news and issues up to date. It is a blog, so I will post as often as possible while developing and doing research.
On the “screenshots” page you can find some mockups of what Farfalla could become some day…
