The Emerging Promise of Touchscreen Devices for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Kversøy, Kjartan Skogly; Kellems, Ryan O.; Alhassan, Abdul-Razak Kuyini; Bussey, Heidi C.

doi:10.3390/mti4040070

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“…3, which may help streamline the cognitive process. This can be particularly effective as people with intellectual disabilities have limitations in the skills of reading, writing, and verbal language skills [32]. Thus, all of these measures ensure that the information is presented in a perceivable manner.…”

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Accessibility Evaluation of Interactive Learning Mobile Applications for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Hardiyanti

2024

IJIET

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In today’s education sector, mobile technologies, including tablets and smartphones, have become integral tools, enabling the implementation of mobile learning in pedagogical activities. However, accessibility issues in mobile applications pose challenges, particularly for individuals with disabilities, contradicting the goals of Sustainable Development and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This paper aims to investigate the extent to which the industry considers accessibility in designing mobile learning applications for this specific user group. We evaluate the accessibility of interactive mobile applications designed for reading and alphabet learning, employing two different guidelines, by conducting heuristic evaluation based on research-based guideline and a design standard introduced by The World Wide Web Consortium. Three experts, each bringing a unique perspective and background, were engaged in the evaluation process. The heuristic evaluations were executed based on the criteria outlined in the selected guidelines. This involved identifying violations and employing a scoring system to quantify the findings. Subsequently, the experts engaged in discussions to achieve consensus and establish final scores for each checkpoint. The results provided a quantitative basis for our analysis. The results of the evaluation performed in this study expose a prevalent disregard for guideline checkpoints among these interactive mobile learning apps. Only two applications could be considered highly inclusive, indicating the need of improvement. Based on the results, the accessibility criteria were also categorized into four primary groups, highlighting the requirements that were least and most addressed by the applications.

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Accessibility Evaluation of Interactive Learning Mobile Applications for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Hardiyanti

2024

IJIET

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“…Many of the devices that proliferate the smartphone market are equipped with touchscreens, which allow users of different abilities to modify the ways in which they interact with and control the functions available. Coupled with the presence of digital voice assistants such as SIRI and Google Assistant the functionality offered by modern smartphones is accessible for a broad range of people with motor, sensory, and cognitive disabilities [15][16][17].…”

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Understanding the Assistive Potential of Consumer Technologies: A Case Example of Smartphones, Smart Speakers, and Internet of Things Technologies

Boyle¹,

O’Brolcháin²

2023

Biomedical Engineering

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Assistive technology by its very design seeks to maintain, improve, or facilitate the functional capabilities of people with disabilities and older people. Traditionally, assistive technologies have been specialist in nature defined by the functional capabilities that it is linked to. However, digital consumer technologies such Digital Voice Assistants are increasingly building ever greater functionality in efforts to appeal to users, including those with disabilities. Aimed at a general market as opposed to being restricted to people with a disability, consumer products, with their lower cost thresholds, can provide a good ratio of social return on investment. Furthermore, the growing interoperability of technologies such as smartphones, smart speakers, and internet of things is building hitherto unanticipated opportunities for people with disabilities. This chapter examines the assistive potential of a range of consumer digital technologies and explores how they can benefit people with disabilities and older people. Issues pertaining to risks to personal information, autonomy as well as consent while using these technologies are also outlined. Finally, this chapter concludes with reflections as to how future consumer products can seek to balance the benefits that can be accrued from their use with concerns for respecting the privacy of people with disabilities.

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“…This entails, for example, ensuring that social media platforms support screen readers, or that digital services facilitate the integration of AAC devices, or to implement the option to navigate through websites via special keyboards or head mice. Another positive development is named by Kversøy et al (2020) as follows: "The widespread introduction of touchscreen mainstream devices has changed the accessibility of Internet use for some people with more complex needs." In addition, the development of technology "enables participation in social media, e.g., video telephony via widespread apps or camera recordings of personal experiences as a means of articulation" (Krstoski, 2019;own translation).…”

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Digital participation and digital education for people with profound and multiple disabilities and complex communication needs

Keeley,

Bernasconi

2023

Front. Commun.

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“Digitalisation” is the buzzword of many societal as well as social changes. Participation in society is increasingly realized digitally, which is why it is important to be involved in these processes and to participate in the digital world. The UN CRPD also assigns an important role to (digital) technology as a prerequisite for inclusion and participation. Universal design, accessibility, assistive technology, and reasonable accommodation should help to avoid exclusion for people with disabilities. People with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), who often have complex communication needs (CCN) in addition to severe cognitive impairments, have fundamentally limited opportunities for participation. These are also visible in the context of digitalisation. At the same time, digital media also offer specific opportunities, particularly for people with PIMD and CCN. Among other things through the combined use of assistive technologies, digital media can significantly facilitate their daily lives. The present paper examines the significance, requirements and challenges as well as the potentials of digital participation and digital education in the lives of adults with PIMD and CCN and presents considerations for the design of digital education for adults. Finally, a conceptual framework for digital education for people with PIMD is presented.

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The Emerging Promise of Touchscreen Devices for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Cited by 13 publications

References 24 publications

Accessibility Evaluation of Interactive Learning Mobile Applications for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Accessibility Evaluation of Interactive Learning Mobile Applications for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Understanding the Assistive Potential of Consumer Technologies: A Case Example of Smartphones, Smart Speakers, and Internet of Things Technologies

Digital participation and digital education for people with profound and multiple disabilities and complex communication needs

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