Abstract: A system and method for growing crystals is described. The system includes a crucible, a shaft adapted to support the crucible, and an intermediate material between the crucible and the shaft having a coating directly applied to contact surfaces of the crucible and the shaft. The coating includes a compound, such as, a carbide, nitride, oxide, or boride. The method for growing a crystal includes providing an intermediate material between contact surfaces between a shaft and a crucible supported by the shaft prior to melting a charge material in the crucible.

Abstract: A method for producing growth-axis oriented single crystal sapphire cores or near-net cores is provided. According to the method, a boule is grown on a desired growth axis having a first axial end and a second axial end. An orientation of a plane normal to the desired growth axis with respect to the boule is determined. The boule is then cored in a direction perpendicular to the plane to produce at least one growth-axis oriented single crystal sapphire core, or the boule is outer-diameter-grinded the boule to form a single crystal sapphire near-net core.

Abstract: Provided is a system and method for growing crystals. The method includes substantially fully covering a seed crystal in a charge material, using a heat source to melt the charge material, cooling the seed crystal to keep the seed crystal at least partially intact as the charge material melts, allowing at least a portion of the seed crystal to melt into the molten charge material, and continually growing the crystal by reducing the temperature of the heat source, moving the molten charge material and seed crystal from the heat source, and increasing a rate of cooling of the seed crystal.

Abstract: Methods and systems related to an improved controlled heat extraction system for crystal growth, such as sapphire crystal growth are described, including methods and systems for mechanical probe-based and pyrometer-based inspection and automation processes, methods and systems for avoiding fusion of components, methods and systems for purging an inspection window, and methods and systems related to alternative crucible shapes.

Abstract: A controlled heat extraction system and method thereof is disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a housing to form a chamber. The system further includes a seed cooling component adapted to support a bottom of the crucible and to receive a coolant fluid to cool the supported portion of the crucible. The system also includes at least one heating element substantially surrounding the seed cooling component and the crucible to heat the crucible, where the seed cooling component along with the crucible is movable relative to the at least one heating element. Furthermore, the system includes an insulating element substantially surrounding the crucible, the seed cooling component and the at least one heating element. Additionally, the system includes a gradient control device (GCD) movable relative to the insulating element, the at least one heating element, the seed cooling component and the crucible over a range of positions.

Abstract: Systems, methods and media for enforcing accessible content development are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for enforcing accessible content development comprising accessing a tag library descriptor for each of a plurality of markup tags for web content authoring where the tag library descriptor notes one or more tag sub-elements required for accessibility. The method may further include analyzing each markup tag in a piece of web content by comparing the tag library descriptor accessibility requirements to sub-elements included with each markup tag to determine whether all required accessibility sub-elements are present. The method may further include generating an error message if all required accessibility sub-elements of a markup tag are not present. The one or more tag sub-elements associated with accessibility may include alternate text for one or more of an image, table, label or graph. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Provided is a method for assigning navigation shortcuts to computing elements in a manner that is not browser, platform or computing device specific and may, if desired, take into consideration an application, document landmark, document type, or genre. A user agent or application reserves a predefined set of access keys to represent typical navigation landmarks. Using these predefined access keys, an author and/or portal designer maps the predefined access keys to browser key equivalents, thus providing consistent navigation across an application or portal. Documents may also include predefined “genres.” An author designates a genre to the document, requests device access keys from the platform, assigns functions corresponding to the designated genre to each access key and then displays the assignments and descriptions to the user of the browser or application. Thus navigation across particular documents, document sections, and web sites within a genre is standardized.

Abstract: Provided is a method for navigation shortcuts to computing elements or functions on a computing device in a manner that is browser, platform and hardware independent. A computing device reserves a set of device dependent mechanisms, or access keys that may be assigned to functionality associated with a document or web page. A browser or application associated with the document or web page dynamically assigns the designated functionality to one of the reserved set access keys. The application or browser that assigns the designated functionality provides a list of the assigned access keys and a corresponding description. Certain access keys may be designated as allowing duplicate assignments. Duplicate assignments of a particular access key may be toggled, or cycled, through the respective functionalities. If the same access key is assigned to different functionalities within different application, then the meaning of the access key is determined by its context.

Abstract: A system for providing DHTML (“Dynamic Hyper-Text Markup Language”) accessibility. Rich keyboard and other assistive technology (“AT”) accessibility is provided for sophisticated Web applications. When a user downloads a Web page, the system performs initialization that includes loading at least one display object, and binding the object to a predetermined event, such as, for example, a focus event. The event the object is bound to may be any semantic, device independent event. The disclosed system may also load a device handling function, such as a keyboard handling function. The device handling function associates one or more display objects with corresponding device actions, such as key presses. A keyboard handling function may operate to intercept at least one key press, and determine that an intercepted key press matches a key press corresponding to a previously loaded display object.

Abstract: A method and system that provide browser-based functions by injected into a web page a control button, form text field or similar browser-based function control such that both the browser controls and the content of the web page can be transformed for accessibility. A proxy machine retrieves a web page for a user, and then injects the user selected browser function controls into the web page itself. The injected browser controls are supported by web-based application services, preferably resident in an intermediary proxy machine, for producing web content that is representative of that function. The web page is transformed into a style that is accessible for that particular user, such as magnifying the page, reformatting background schemes, etc. The user can select which browser function buttons are injected into the web page, and as the web page is transformed for accessibility, the browser controls on the page are likewise transformed.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for recognizing and correcting dyslexia-related spelling errors is provided. A word is received for evaluation of a dyslexia-related misspelling. The received word is compared with a plurality of dyslexia variants, and a match between the received word and a dyslexia variant is identified. An error rate at which dyslexia-related misspelled words are received is compared with a threshold, and the read word is evaluated as one of a correctly spelled word and a dyslexia-related misspelling of a word.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for modifying visual presentations based on environmental context, display characteristics, and user preferences. The apparatus includes an interface and a controller coupled to the interface. The controller is adapted to receive data indicative of light conditions proximate to a visual presentation device, receive data associated with at least one visibility profile, and determine visual data to be displayed by the visual presentation device based on at least a portion of the received data indicative of light conditions and the received data associated with the at least one visibility profile.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for audio presentations based on environmental context and user preferences. The method includes receiving data indicative of acoustic conditions proximate to an audio presentation device, receiving data associated with at least one audio profile, and determining acoustic data to be provided based on at least a portion of the received data indicative of acoustic conditions proximate to the audio presentation device and at least a portion of the data associated with the at least one audio profile.