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Input to the mobile web is situationally-impaired

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

Pages 303 - 304

https://doi.org/10.1145/1414471.1414550

Published: 13 October 2008 Publication History

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Our work investigates the common problems experienced by mobile Web users and disabled desktop users. Leveraging research between these two domains is important because if common problems exist, available solutions can be migrated from one domain to another. For a proof of concept, we conducted a study with mobile Web users. The study replicated a previous experiment which investigated keyboard and mouse errors of motor impaired desktop users. Results confirm that these two domains share similar problems with regard to typing and pointing. Following the same methodology, we will investigate the problems shared by mobile Web users and disabled desktop users for output.

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Sakamoto Sda Silva Lde Miranda LMaciel Cde Souza PAnacleto Jde Almeida Neris V(2012)Identificando barreiras de acessibilidade web em dispositivos móveisProceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.5555/2393536.2393540(23-32)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2012
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Alabi HGooch BHirschfeld RVisser E(2011)The accessibility toolkitProceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software10.1145/2089131.2089136(145-148)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2089131.2089136

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Input to the mobile web is situationally-impaired
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2008

332 pages

ISBN:9781595939760

DOI:10.1145/1414471

General Chair:
Simon Harper
The University of Manchester, UK
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Program Chair:
Armando Barreto
Florida International University, USA

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Sakamoto Sda Silva Lde Miranda LMaciel Cde Souza PAnacleto Jde Almeida Neris V(2012)Identificando barreiras de acessibilidade web em dispositivos móveisProceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.5555/2393536.2393540(23-32)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2393536.2393540
Alabi HGooch BHirschfeld RVisser E(2011)The accessibility toolkitProceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software10.1145/2089131.2089136(145-148)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2089131.2089136

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