Web accessibility and people with dyslexia

Santana, Vagner Figueredo de; Oliveira, Rosimeire de; Almeida, Leonelo Dell Anhol; Baranauskas, M. Cecí­lia C.

doi:10.1145/2207016.2207047

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“…Policy and law in Sweden, as in the rest of the European Union [2], points to WCAG, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as the standard to comply with requirements of accessibility [33]. Even though WCAG has been important for the development of web accessibility, it has also has been criticized for lack of support to people with cognitive impairments [34,35], intellectual disabilities [36], dyslexia [37] in favour of people with sensory and physical impairments [25].…”

Section: Accessibility and Universal Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disability digital divide: the use of the internet, smartphones, computers and tablets among people with disabilities in Sweden

Johansson

Gulliksen

Gustavsson

2020

Univ Access Inf Soc

104

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Although Sweden is one of the most digitalized countries and the Swedish population's use of the internet is among the most studied in the world, little is known about how Swedes with disabilities use internet. The purpose of this study is to describe use of and perceived difficulties in use of the internet among people with disabilities and to explore digital divides in-between and within disability groups, and in comparison with the general population. This is a cross-sectional survey targeting the same issues as other nationwide surveys but adapted for people with cognitive disabilities. Participants were recruited from May to October 2017 by adaptive snowball sampling. The survey comprised questions on access to and use of devices, and use of and perceived difficulties in use of internet. A total of 771 people responded to the survey, representing 35 diagnoses/impairments. Larger proportions of people with autism, ADHD and bipolar disorder reported using internet than other disability groups. Women with autism used the internet more than any other disability group, and women with aphasia used the internet the least. People with disabilities related to language and understanding reported more difficulties using internet than other disability groups. Larger proportions of participants than the general Swedish population reported not feeling digitally included. In many but not all disability groups, larger proportions of men than women reported not feeling digitally included. Our findings show that there are differences in digital inclusion between subgroups of diagnoses/ impairments. Thus, disability digital divides are preferably investigated by sub-grouping disabilities, rather than studied as one homogeneous group.

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Section: Accessibility and Universal Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disability digital divide: the use of the internet, smartphones, computers and tablets among people with disabilities in Sweden

Johansson

Gulliksen

Gustavsson

2020

Univ Access Inf Soc

104

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“…Decoding errors are common among dyslexic users (Snowling, 2000) which has led to suggestions that dyslexics focus more on images than words (Houts et al, 2006;de Santana et al, 2012). However, icons are suggested to demand more neurological effort than word processing in general (Huang et al, 2015), which may undermine H 3 .…”

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Is visual content in textual search interfaces beneficial to dyslexic users?

Berget

Mulvey

Sandnes

2016

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…Although the awareness about cognitive accessibility has been increasing in the last few years, it is still less than necessary comparing to the current awareness related to visual or hearing disability, for example. In one hand, researches on human-computer interaction in Brazil have advanced on the development of resources and guidelines about specific cognitive disabilities, such as Autism (Britto & Pizzolato, 2018;Melo, Santos, Rivero, & Barreto, 2017) and Dyslexia (Cascaes et al, 2018;de Santana, de Oliveira, Almeida, & Baranauskas, 2012). On the other hand, professionals involved in the web development industry lack fundamental knowledge about how to design inclusive solutions for people with cognitive disabilities, as we evidenced in the results of the survey.…”

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Cognitive disabilities and web accessibility: a survey into the Brazilian web development community

Britto¹,

Pizzolato

2021

JIS

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Cognitive disabilities include a diversity of conditions related to cognitive functions, such as reading, understanding, learning, solving problems, memorization and speaking. They differ largely from each other, making them a heterogeneous complex set of disabilities. Although the awareness about cognitive disabilities has been increasing in the last few years, it is still less than necessary compared to other disabilities. The need for an investigation about this issue is part of the agenda of the Challenge 2 (Accessibility and Digital Inclusion) from GranDIHC-Br. This paper describes the results of an online exploratory survey conducted with 105 web development professionals from different sectors to understand their knowledge and barriers regarding accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities. The results evidenced three biases that potentially prevent those professionals from approaching cogni-tive disabilities: strong organizational barriers; difficulty to understand user needs related to cognitive disabilities; a knowledge gap about web accessibility principles and guidelines. Our results confirmed that web development professionals are unaware about cognitive disabilities mostly by a lack of knowledge about them, even if they understand web accessibility in a technical level. Therefore, we suggest that applied research studies focus on how to fill this knowledge gap before providing tools, artifacts or frameworks.

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Web accessibility and people with dyslexia

Cited by 61 publications

References 11 publications

Disability digital divide: the use of the internet, smartphones, computers and tablets among people with disabilities in Sweden

Disability digital divide: the use of the internet, smartphones, computers and tablets among people with disabilities in Sweden

Is visual content in textual search interfaces beneficial to dyslexic users?

Cognitive disabilities and web accessibility: a survey into the Brazilian web development community

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