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Accessibility evaluation of an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) tool

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), ISSN: 1611-3349, Vol: 8516 LNCS, Issue: PART 4, Page: 529-540
2014
  • 8
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 24
    Captures
  • 0
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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Metrics Details

  • Citations
    8
    • Citation Indexes
      8
  • Captures
    24

Conference Paper Description

People with communication needs use Assistive Technology (AT) to participate in society, be at the family, school among others. There is a variety of different Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices due to end-users have different communication needs. AraBoard is an AAC tool developed with the aim to facilitate the functional communication to people with complex communication needs. In this paper, AraBoard tool is presented. In order to ensure the quality of the tool, an accessibility evaluation has been carried out. Following a methodical approach, two main steps have been followed in the evaluation process: (1) Two lists of checkpoints have been developed based on the study and analysis of accessibility standards and related work in the domain of AAC; (2) An evaluation using these resources has been conducted by accessibility experts. The results from the study indicate a high level of accessibility in AraBoard tool, besides some suggestions about new requirements to integrate in the tool have been obtained. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.

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