Computers Helping People with Special Needs

1. Years of the Web: Weaving Accessibility

   1. Accessibility of E-Commerce Websites for Vision-Impaired Persons

      • Roopa Bose, Helmut Jürgensen

      Pages 121-128

   2. jCAPTCHA: Accessible Human Validation

      • Matthew Davidson, Karen Renaud, Shujun Li

      Pages 129-136

   3. Benefits and Challenges of Combining Automated and User Testing to Enhance e-Accessibility – The European Internet Inclusion Initiative

      • Mikael Snaprud, Kamyar Rasta, Kim Andreasson, Annika Nietzio

      Pages 137-140

   4. Accessibility of MOOCs

      • Marco Bohnsack, Steffen Puhl

      Pages 141-144

   5. A First Look into MOOCs Accessibility

      • Najd A. Al-Mouh, Atheer S. Al-Khalifa, Hend S. Al-Khalifa

      Pages 145-152

   6. How to Increase Contrast Using Color Inversion

      • Josef Köble

      Pages 153-156

2. Towards e-inclusion for People with Intellectual Disabilities

   1. Easy to Surf - What Makes Websites Accessible to People with Intellectual and Learning Disabilities

      • Gabriela Antener, Anton Bolfing, Stefania Calabrese

      Pages 157-160

   2. "Easy-to-Read on the Web": State of the Art and Needed Research

      • Klaus Miesenberger, Andrea Petz

      Pages 161-168

   3. Testing the Perceived Ease of Use in Social Media

      • Julia George, Nils Dietzsch, Michael Bier, Hannes Zirpel, Alexander Perl, Susanne Robra-Bissantz

      Pages 169-176

   4. People with Learning Disabilities Using the iPad as a Communication Tool - Conditions and Impact with Regard to e-inclusion

      • Cordula Edler, Matthias Rath

      Pages 177-180

3. The Impact of PDF/UA on Accessible PDF

   1. Implementing PDF/UA in Microsoft Word - How Can PDF/UA Become an Everyday Part of Document Authoring?

      • Roberto Bianchetti, Samuel Hofer, Markus Erle

      Pages 181-184

   2. PAVE: A Web Application to Identify and Correct Accessibility Problems in PDF Documents

      • Luchin Doblies, David Stolz, Alireza Darvishy, Hans-Peter Hutter

      Pages 185-192

   3. Correcting "Last Mile" Errors - Quality Assurance of PDF/UA Documents without Being a Developer

      • Roberto Bianchetti, Samuel Hofer, Markus Erle

      Pages 193-196

   4. PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC 2): The First Tool to Test PDF Documents for PDF/UA Compliance

      • Andreas Uebelbacher, Roberto Bianchetti, Markus Riesch

      Pages 197-201

   5. A Strategic Approach to Document Accessibility: Integrating PDF/UA into Your Electronic Content

      • Adam Spencer, Karen McCall

      Pages 202-204

4. Accessibility of Non-verbal Communication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-208

      PDF

   2. Multimodal Fusion and Fission within W3C Standards for Nonverbal Communication with Blind Persons

      • Dirk Schnelle-Walka, Stefan Radomski, Max Mühlhäuser

      Pages 209-213

   3. A Mind Map for Brainstorming Sessions with Blind and Sighted Persons

      • Dirk Schnelle-Walka, Ali Alavi, Patrick Ostie, Max Mühlhäuser, Andreas Kunz

      Pages 214-219

   4. Presenting Non-verbal Communication to Blind Users in Brainstorming Sessions

      • Stephan Pölzer, Klaus Miesenberger

      Pages 220-225

   5. Towards an Information State Update Model Approach for Nonverbal Communication

      • Dirk Schnelle-Walka, Stefan Radomski, Stephan Radeck-Arneth, Max Mühlhäuser

      Pages 226-230

The two-volume set LNCS 8547 and 8548 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2014, held in Paris, France, in July 2014. The 132 revised full papers and 55 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 362 submissions. The papers included in the first volume are organized in the following topical sections: accessible media; digital content and media accessibility; 25 years of the Web: weaving accessibility; towards e-inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities; the impact of PDF/UA on accessible PDF; accessibility of non-verbal communication; emotions for accessibility (E4A), games and entertainment software; accessibility and therapy; implementation and take-up of e-accessibility; accessibility and usability of mobile platforms for people with disabilities and elderly persons; portable and mobile platforms for people with disabilities and elderly persons; people with cognitive disabilities: At, ICT and AAC; autism: ICT and AT; access to mathematics, science and music and blind and visually impaired people: AT, HCI and accessibility.

• Braille
• LaTeX
• computer vision
• document management and text processing
• e-learning
• facebook
• machine learning algorithms
• mobile devices
• people with disabilities
• publishing
• smart phones
• social networks
• user centred design
• user interface design
• virtual reality

• Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

  Klaus Miesenberger

• Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

  Deborah Fels

• THIM/EA 4004 CHArt, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, Saint-Denis Cedex, France

  Dominique Archambault

• Teiresias Centre, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  Petr Peňáz

• Institute “Integriert Studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

  Wolfgang Zagler

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