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The task of the IPSNI II project has been to investigate the accessibility of multimedia telecommunications services for people with disabilities. Where problems were found, the project was to develop and demonstrate examples of hardware, software and service adaptations solutions that show how accessibility could be improved. In doing so, the project has not only been able to utilise the flexibility and power of the intelligent broadband infrastructure, but has also raised a number of issues that are of interest to service providers and network managers. Some of these issues will be discussed in this paper in the context of two adaptations developed by the project. The principal emphasis of the paper is to illustrate some of the practical service provision and management questions that are raised when service adaptation is required for people with special needs.
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Hine, N.A. et al. (1994). Integration of adaptations for people with special needs. In: Kugler, HJ., Mullery, A., Niebert, N. (eds) Towards a Pan-European Telecommunication Service Infrastructure — IS&N '94. IS&N 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 851. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013397
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