Designing a User Interface for People with Disabilities

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Designing a User Interface for People with
Disabilities

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Visual Impairment

• Potentially most debilitating
• Screen readers and synthesised speech
• Braille output devices
• Touch typing

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• Tactile interaction
• Force feedback
• Specialist software needed
• Sometimes expensive hardware needed

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Hearing Impairment

• Auditory channel second to visual
• Textual captions needed for auditory elements
• Captioning benefits all users by making
  multimedia easier to index and search

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Physical Impairment

• Amount of control possible varies greatly
• Speech input and output
• The eye gaze system
• Reactive keyboard (predictive text)

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Speech Impairment

• Synthetic speech
• Text based communication
• Predictive speech algorhythms
• Pre-programmed responses

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The End

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