FACULTY

Biography

Jutta Treviranus established and directs the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the U of T, an internationally recognized centre of expertise on barrier-free access to information technology. She has more than 25 years of research, clinical and management experience in the field of access technology. Jutta has lead a large number of national and international multi-partner research projects (including The Inclusive Learning Exchange (TILE), the Canadian Network for Inclusive Cultural Exchange, the Network for Inclusive Distance Education, CulturAll, Stretch and the Barrierfree project, that have led to a range of broadly implemented technical innovations. She has published in many areas related to alternative access. She is chair of the pivotal Web Access Initiative, W3C, Authoring Tool Working Group, chair of the IMS AccessForAll Specification Working Groups, Project Editor within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36, as well as a member of a number of key advisory panels, boards and task forces (e.g., Jutta is a board member on Sakai). The ATRC has been recently awarded with the American Foundation for the Blind Access Award (1998), the Trophée de Libre for Open Source Development, and the Dr. Dayton M. Forman Memorial Award. Jutta holds faculty appointments in the Faculty of Information Studies, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the U of T.

Keywords
Inclusive information technology design, technology-assisted teaching and learning, accessible rich media, skilled use of the computer by people with disabilities, accessible authoring tools and content