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Ability Magazine

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My Name is Paul Albano, 
I'm with Canon USA.

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At Canon we are driven by the
corporate philosophy of "Kyousei"

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which means "living and working
together for the common good".

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That philosophy drives all
of our activities at Canon

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from the way in which
we design our products

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to our relationships with
our customers

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and communities in which we operate in

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as well as our
management structure.

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At Canon we strive to design
technology

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that's accessible to the
widest range of users

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regardless of their abilities.

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In our office equipment
environment,

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we strive to design
technology and solutions

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that will allow people
to do their work

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with great ease of use
and great efficiency

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so that technology
can be enjoyed

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and used by people
of all abilities.

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Our founder, Dr. Mitarai,

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shortly after we introduced
our first camera

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we introduced the world's first
indirect X-ray camera

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which is used
to help diagnose

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certain diseases
such as tuberculosis

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In the 1970's we were
actually a distributor


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of certain accessibility products

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We actually manufactured a product called
"Cannon Communicator"

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and we were a distributor

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of a product called
the "Optacon".

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Today we're designing
multifunctional office equipment

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that will allow people
to perform their daily work

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much more easily
and efficiently

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and by removing many
of the common barriers

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that they may experience 
from office products.

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For example, UI screens, which do not have
any tactile markings or indications

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are able to now provide access
to the user interface using things such as

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voice guidance or voice navigation.

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We're able to apply things such as
red label kits to our products

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which help folks with low vision to
identify key components of the system.

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Most of our machines also can work
or integrate with screen readers

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and screen magnification software
so many of many device drivers

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and utilities can be accessed from a
remote location, from a desktop.

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So these are just some examples
of how we strive to make

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our technology accessible for people in an
office setting,

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allow people to do their work
much more independently.