Disabled persons are experiencing additional difficulties when interacting with systems, applications or devices and also have their own unique requirements that enable them to use a system. If the design of the system does not support these requirements, people with disabilities will experience obstacles that may prevent them from interacting effectively with a system. This paper reports on the experience with designing an adaptive web portal that can be used by people with a variety of impairments. Highlighted is the fact that designing a system that is usable by people with various disabilities, and various severities of a specific disability, is not a trivial task. The paper specifically focuses on design guidelines that were highlighted by participants with mobility or motion impairments during a usability evaluation to show that even within a fairly homogeneous group, several individual differences will exist that may influence the design of adaptive systems.
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Greeff, M and Kotze, P. 2007. Individual difficulties faced by persons with mobility impairments. IADIS: International Conference on interfaces and human computer interaction. Lisbon, Portugal, 3-8 July 2007, pp 6
Greeff, M., & Kotzé, P. (2007). Individual difficulties faced by persons with mobility impairments. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1578
Greeff, M, and Paula Kotzé. "Individual difficulties faced by persons with mobility impairments." (2007): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1578
Greeff M, Kotzé P, Individual difficulties faced by persons with mobility impairments; 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1578 .