Accessibility Support for Older Adults with the ACCESS Framework

Equitable access to the digital economy is predicated on the usability of the devices that are used to access electronic goods and services, with computers being the primary mechanism for many users by which this is currently done. For novice users with special interaction requirements, current arra...

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Published inInternational journal of human-computer interaction Vol. 29; no. 11; pp. 702 - 716
Main Authors Heron, Michael, Hanson, Vicki L., Ricketts, Ian W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Norwood Taylor & Francis 02.11.2013
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc
Subjects
Accessibility
Adaptive technology
Adults
Computer programs
Design engineering
Economics
Electronics
Knowledge
Old people
Older people
Open source software
Packages
Software
Systems design
Technology adoption
Usability
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Summary:Equitable access to the digital economy is predicated on the usability of the devices that are used to access electronic goods and services, with computers being the primary mechanism for many users by which this is currently done. For novice users with special interaction requirements, current arrangements for enabling accessibility support are suboptimal. Older users in particular require special consideration with regards to the design of software support packages to ensure the burden of knowledge required to configure a system is reasonable. This article describes the ACCESS Framework, a novel open-source, plug-in enabled software framework designed to address some of the issues around providing accessibility support on the desktop. The framework employs a system through which corrections are successively adapted to an individual user's preferences. Through empirical work with older adults, the framework has been shown to provide an understandable, appropriate, and effective way to enable accessibility support.
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ISSN:1044-7318
1532-7590
1044-7318
DOI:10.1080/10447318.2013.768139