For the past five years (2012-2017), the Max Weber Center of Erfurt University has hosted a project on 'Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning "cults" and "polis religion"', financed by the European Research Council and embedded in the research group on 'Religious individualisation in historical perspective' (see Fuchs and Rüpke. [2015. "Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective."

New technology tends to be inaccessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility features are frequently added as the technology matures; doing so late in the cycle incurs significant costs. The initial omission of accessibility features often results from systems designers' lack of insight into accessibility requirements. This paper discusses accessibility requirements for accommodating users with vision impairments from the complementary perspectives of the systems architect, the assistive technology developer, and the application developer. The paper concludes with a historical perspective of the evolution of the current Windowse accessibility features and gives insight into future industry directions.

The household assemblage at Deir el-Medina reflects the abandonment process of the village rather than the areas of household activity. The analysis of immobile features is therefore more reliable as a source of information than the study of artefacts. An important immovable feature of the houses at Deir el-Medina is the platform (the so-called lits clos). It is shown that these platforms served as house altars. The custom of building house altars — perhaps inspired by the shape of official temple altars — was probably established during the reign of Amenhotep III in Malkata, and continued until the Third Intermediate Period. Apart from Amarna, this custom was confined to the Theban area.

The present volume comprises papers presented at a conference of the ERC Advanced Grant 'Lived Ancient Religion: Questioning "cults" and "polis religion"' project held at Haus Hainstein in Eisenach (Germany) from 9 to 11 October 2013. 1 It is dedicated to Professor Richard Gordon on the occasion of his 70 th birthday. 2 The idea for the conference was born from the ERC research project headed by Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke and based at the Max Weber Centre of Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University. This collective research project takes a new approach to the religious history of Mediterranean antiquity, starting from the individual and 'lived' religion instead of cities or peoples. 'Lived religion' suggests a set of experiences, practices addressed to, and conceptions of the divine, which are appropriated, expressed, and shared by individuals in diverse social spaces 3 from the primary space of the family to the shared space of public institutions and trans-local literary communication. The methodological innovation is defined through the combination of the notions of religious experience, embodiment, and 'culture in interaction' . Such a perspective gives us the opportunity to examine religion from the perspective of individuals and groups as a lived experience and not as the carrying-out of a set of rules and regulations to be fulfilled.From the 'lived religion' perspective, the role of religion as mediating any globalisation of thought is particularly intriguing. The concept of religion is one which continues to fascinate us, no less in this day and age, where * The editors of this volume would like to thank and acknowledge the expertise of the anonymous peer-reviewers for commenting on the contributions. Furthermore we would like to thank Jörg Rüpke for commenting on the draft of the introduction and giving valuable input.