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Usability Glossary: accessibility aids


assistive technology; tools to help people with disabilities to use computers more effectively. Some general categories of disabilities, and some common aids include:

  • motor impairments - Sticky Keys and Slow Keys, hardware devices such as head-mounted input devices and eye-tracking systems
  • visual impairments - screen enlargement utilities, tactile and auditory output and text-to-speech systems.
  • hearing impairments - visible alerts, speech-to-text systems, captioning
  • cognitive impairments - reminder systems

see also

Sticky Keys

categories

Glossary Categories > Accessibility > Accessibility Tools

related links

Accessibility
What is Disability?
Types of Accessibility Aids
Principles of Accessible Design

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