Wise crowds
Collaborative Atom hacking
E-Commerce at an interplanetary scale
Nails for the educational hammer (Example: Secure Exam)
Challenges: Locking out all applications, including AT
Solutions: Working with the vendor or building a hack
Challenges: Making mathematical notation accessible
Solutions: Mathplayer
It's hot, and it's inaccessible! (Example: Google Maps)
Challenges: Ajax-based apps (like google maps, gmail and oddpost) are gaining popularity. Existing XML-based development frameworks that export SWF files (like Lazslo) are close on their heels.
Solutions: Standards, standards, standards. Also, smacking developers upside the head occasionally.
Challenges: Media captioning and transcripts. Bundling HTML/Audio/Video/Flash into integrated files. Platform dependence (video portion runs on WIN/IE only)
Solutions: Maturing technology, staff labor, automated tools.
Challenges: Some quiz components incorporated into a Breeze presentation do not provide sufficient information for screen reader users to complete.
Solutions: Maturing technology, standards, staff labor, automated conversion.
New ways to organize learning (Example: Sakai (application framework and CMS tools)/ OKI (interoperability specifications)
Challenges: Accessibility focus in development effort
Solutions: (Example: ATutor) "ATutor is the first fully inclusive LCMS, complying with the W3C WCAG 1.0 accessibility specifications at the AA+ level ... Conformance with W3C XHTML 1.0" Also uses GPL license.
New formats and paper replacement strategies (Example: Macromedia Flashpaper)
Challenges: Content creator awareness - design and markup issues. Product limitations - tables and spreadsheets.
Solutions: Training and education, continued development.
Open source applications (Example: OpenOffice)
Challenges: open source development structure
Solutions: Continued development. In StarOffice, the Java Accessibility API supports JAWS Screen Reader, ZoomText, Gnopernicus Screen Reader and Magnifier, and GNOME On Screen Keyboard (GOK).
Challenges: Look at the OS X VPAT, for Pete's sake! Horrible! Worse than Windows XP!
Solutions: Pressure developers, build community, raise awareness, expect more.
Mobile Devices (Example: WML)
Challenges: Design for small screens, media types
Solutions: Training and education, awareness building
Location-aware computing (via GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RFID, Cell ID, UWB, FM, magic future pixie dust)
Challenges: Privacy, security, access
Solutions: Further development
Voice-over-IP (Example: Skype)
Challenges: Text or transcript for hearing impaired users
Solutions: Handy chat feature, further development