 I'd like to start with the different topics that you've covered today in your two presentations on Tuesday and Thursday. And the first thing we'd like to know is how you view the topic of web accessibility and how important you see this topic and what should web developers do in order to make the websites accessible for different types of disabled disabilities. For World Wide Web, it first came out in the early 1990s that web accessibility was something that was a nice thing to do but which is not required. Because of national legislation in some countries and because of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, web accessibility is no longer something that you should, is no longer something which is voluntary. It's required legally by the United Nations that websites have to be accessible. If a country has signed the UN Convention, then its websites have to be accessible to and usable by people with disabilities. So web developers need to use such techniques as cascading style sheets, tags on photographs and images which explain what those photographs and images are. A logical as opposed to an ad hoc web layout that is not just a web layout that looks beautiful but one which is actually functional. And that makes websites accessible to and usable by people with disabilities. One of the things I said in my presentation is in the United States there have been a number of lawsuits, legal litigation by major companies which have lost in the courts because the U.S. government and other governments have had the requirement for accessibility of websites for some time in their national laws and so websites have to be accessible. For instance in Qatar, the basic website for Qatar Airways is a fairly accessible website but parts of it are not accessible so there needs to be more work done on that website. Okay, also you've covered in your Tuesday presentation social networking and its relationship with disabilities and I mean how can technology be used and how social networks can play a part in this. So can you give us? I'll be glad to. People with disabilities often live in a very isolated environment. They may or may not have many friends and they may or may not be able to communicate with their families in a variety of ways. The social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace and Twitter allow people with disabilities to become socially integrated into society. That is if you can have a Facebook page or MySpace page or a Twitter account you can stay in touch with and be an equal part of your family. You can socially integrate into your family and into your family, your bigger family group with all your friends. And there are now ways to make those websites usable and accessible so that you can have a Facebook page or a Twitter account or whatever. And that's why it's very important because people need to be able to participate equally with their family and equally in society. And social networking is one of the best ways to do it. Also on Tuesday you've mentioned the new line technology. What's this technology? What's this technique? Can you tell us more about it? I demonstrated two things on Tuesday. The first one, this is a normal unmodified Nokia cell phone called an N82. On the back of the cell phone it has a regular, it has a 5 megapixel camera and a Xenon flash. But inside the cell phone is special software which I'll demonstrate. You're reading mobile. Huh. Said hello, I'm the KNFB Reader Mobile. This was manufactured by the KNFB Reading Technologies Company. It stands for Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation of the Blind. Ray Kurzweil is a scientist who invented optical character recognition and the National Federation of the Blind is the oldest and largest organization of blind and visually impaired people in the United States. And they formed a company to develop this product. So if we want to read anything, you put the cell phone in the middle of the page like that and it now says image capture. So to read that page, what you do is you just simply pick it up like that and take a picture. Take a picture. Since taking picture. Now. Puts, articles and labels format. Two degrees counterclockwise relative to the page. Harold W. Snyder biography. Dr. Harold Snyder is the President of Access for the Anti-Capt. Incorporated AH1A, confirmed Rockville, Maryland. He holds at Oceania and Modem, British Houston from Oxford University while working as Director of Outreach for People with Disabilities at the Republican National Committee in 1989. Dr. Snyder Percent posed the author of portions of the final draft of the Americans with Disabilities. So it's reading the print on this piece of paper and it will read any print. It won't read handwriting but it will read any color print with any other color background. Now I'll stop it so that we can. Anyway with this cell phone you can read any page, any book. It currently reads English and 16 other languages and Arabic is under construction and will be ready probably within the next six months. But we have to have 200 people in the Middle East who will want to use that device before we can develop Arabic. So we have some promises from some countries who are interested in doing it and that's why we're going to proceed with having Arabic within the next six months or so. So anything that's available that's printed in Arabic will be able to read. We intend to start with the Koran because if it can read the Koran it can read anything. The Koran is a difficult book to read. So that product is considering cost $1,000 plus the cost of the cell phone. It doesn't include the cell phone. So for $1,000 you will be able to have software that will be able to read you any print page. You put it in either the Nokia N82 or the Nokia 6220 Classic. Both of which you can buy very cheaply in the soups here in Doha or in soups in other parts of the Middle East as a matter of fact. So today you discussed the social and psychological impact of using assistive technology. So can you highlight this? Be glad to. I began by making three predictions. Normally, I don't make predictions but I thought for this audience predictions would be interesting. They're predictions that I've thought about for a long time and have read a lot about the subjects and so I decided it was time to make the predictions. There were three of them. The first one is that I believe that within the next three years because of medical research that's going on in Australia and in Portugal, medical teams are developing artificial sight for people who have lost their vision and I predicted within three years there will be several people in either or both Australia or in Portugal who will be able to have usable vision because of the use of artificial sight. That's what I predict based on the research that's gone on over the last five to seven years in those two countries. There are some countries where human research is not permitted and it's highly regulated in Australia and in Portugal they made the decision that research on eyesight was important and so that's where the development is taking place. The second prediction I made was that in ten years there would be an automobile that a person who was totally blind could drive on the road. In order to do that there has to be just like this software used optical character recognition, an automobile drivable by someone who's blind has to use something called object recognition software because it has to be able to identify the objects and the obstacles which appear on the road and it has to be able to identify them far enough away so that the car will stop. We already have the GPS location technology, we have other kinds of technology but we need to have object recognition technology. For instance we already have technology where you can take a series of photographs of people in a crowd and you put those photographs through a computer and because of computer matching the computer can recognize the faces of some of the people who are in the crowd. It's a way that people use to find criminals or terrorists, that's face recognition technology and that is the beginning of object recognition technology. So I believe that within ten years there will be an automobile that people who are blind will be able to drive. The last prediction was that I said within ten years there would be a man machine interface so that you could instead of typing on a computer you could control the computer with your mind and you could get information from the computer directly into your mind and your mind could also communicate with the computer directly. An electro biological interface, a man machine interface so that people with disabilities could really have control of technology and so their disability, their ability to see the screen or type on a keyboard wouldn't matter anymore so long as they could think clearly and think correctly and could communicate with the computer and understand what the computer said to them then the man machine interface could certainly work. The beginnings of this kind of technology, the research on the beginnings of this type of technology are already occurring in a number of countries and I believe that in ten years it will be readily available. Thank you so much for this lovely interview, I really enjoyed it.