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While an average computer user clamours for the increased screen real estate gained by increasing a monitor’s resolution, users with visual disabilities struggle as the information gets smaller. Unfortunately for the users with visual disabilities, higher resolutions have become increasingly common over the past few years. Due to this increased average resolution, software and webpage developers often neglect users of lower resolutions in favour of using all of the available space on high-resolution displays. This paper aims to investigate the needs of users with visual disabilities and how they are negatively affected by developers who design interfaces which can not be used efficiently at multiple resolutions. Possible solutions to this problem will also be discussed.
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Hughes, G., Robinson, P. (2008). The Resolution Race: Perpetuating Inaccessible Computing. In: Langdon, P., Clarkson, J., Robinson, P. (eds) Designing Inclusive Futures. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-211-1_16
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