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Universal Usability Issues of Textual Information Structures, Commands, and Languages of Native Visually Challenged Users: An Inclusive Design Framework

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Current textual languages (e.g., textual information structures, command and query languages, and programming languages) are neither accessible nor adaptable to the computing requirements of native visually challenged users. In this paper, we identify semantic, syntactic, linguistic and cognitive issues and accessibility factors at various level of human-computer interaction and proposes a inclusive, universal design framework, that enables not only linguistically handicapped users but also visually challenged users to command and operate computers, and learn programming.

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems, Dolivostrasse 15, 64293, Darmstadt, Germany

    Basawaraj Patil, Klaus Maetzel & Erich J. Neuhold

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  1. SZS — Study Centre for Blind and Partially Sighted Students, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Engesserstr. 4, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. i3s3 — integrated studying, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Joachim Klaus

  3. i3s3 — integrated studying, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/366-1B, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Patil, B., Maetzel, K., Neuhold, E.J. (2002). Universal Usability Issues of Textual Information Structures, Commands, and Languages of Native Visually Challenged Users: An Inclusive Design Framework. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_79

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