Groupware Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities

Schoeberlein, John G.; Wang, Yuanqiong

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02713-0_43

Cited by 6 publications

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“…The use of audio allows these participants to access knowledge using an auxiliary source via listening (Schoeberlein and Wang 2009). However, four dyslexic participants found the audio to be distracting.…”

Section: Helps In Pronunciationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web text reading: what satisfy both dyslexic and normal learners?

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The study employs an exploratory approach to examine the satisfaction of normal and dyslexic learners toward different web text modes. As an average of 10 % of the population shows some traits of dyslexia, presenting web text solely based on the guidelines for normal web users will put users with dyslexia at disadvantage. Due to the ubiquitous use of the web for online learning purposes and the availability of tremendous amount of text on the web, this investigation intends to derive appropriate guidelines for presenting web text that could accommodate both groups of learners. This qualitative study uses a multiple case study design and data are mainly collected via observations and guided interviews. The study reveals that existing dyslexia-friendly text guidelines are also appropriate for normal learners and the use of screen reader, an assistive technology that reads text aloud, does not fit every dyslexic and normal learner.

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Section: Helps In Pronunciationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web text reading: what satisfy both dyslexic and normal learners?

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“…When a group of users works on a single task, the productivity and the quality of the work increases and decision making becomes faster and more efficient [13]. This is achieved through a groupware environment that has the functions of collaboration and coordination in it [7]. To achieve a high coordination and collaboration quality, group awareness and the support of coordination are essential.…”

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“…Thus, individuals can be more productive if they work collaboratively in a group [6]. However, individuals with visual impairments struggle when they interact with such applications [7], as they are not particularly designed for them. Add-ons [8] and interface wrappers [9] have been developed to make applications accessible to them, however, they are still not fully utilizable.…”

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An Intelligent and Interactive Interface to Support Symmetrical Collaborative Educational Writing among Visually Impaired and Sighted Users

2019

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It is often uncomfortable for disabled individuals, especially those with vision impairment, to conduct educational activities in collaboration with people that have perfect vision. This can be because of the former’s lack of confidence, vision capability, and acceptance. Information and communications technology (ICT) has played a vital role in giving support to people with visual impairments so that they can overcome their issues. This study proposes innovative solutions that address the challenges faced by partially or completely visually impaired people. It provides an interactive and intelligent interface, which they may use to perform educational activities, such as editing, writing, or reviewing documents, in collaboration with people without visual impairments. The system provides high-quality awareness features by sending them instant voice notifications about the actions and events occurring in the shared environment. A speech-recognition engine has been integrated into the system to allow users to interact with the application through voice commands. The system is evaluated through experiments, where people with visual impairment and people without visual impairment were engaged in collaborative writing. The obtained results are encouraging. The users showed curiosity in the system and were able to focus on the productive task instead of their disability.

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“…Although ThinkFree proved effective for the proposed tasks, efficiency and availability of resources were more limited than in Google Docs. Schoeberlein et al (Schoeberlein & Yuanqiong, 2009), revising recent literature on groupware accessibility and existing solutions, have highlighted the need for future research. Authors observed that most articles address the needs of a specific category of disabled persons.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%