Heliox Project: Technological Environments for Functional Diversity
Keywords:
Functional Diversity, Interaction Environments, Technological Design, Design for All, Open FunctionalityAbstract
Design and construction of environments influences the functioning chances of people, in an enabling or disabling way. Traditional efforts to remove physical and architectural barriers have evolved into a more comprehensive and 'universalist' vision of accessibility requirements. In the case of new technologies, lack of accessibility produces inequalities and divides in two key aspects: access and use. Combining these two inequalities leads to inequality opportunities for individuals and social groups affected by the digital divide. In order to facilitate access and use to computer for people with nonstandard functioning, we present the technological solution 'Heliox', based on the principles of design for all, open functionality and representational multimodality of technological resources in ICT environment
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