Warning:
This wiki has been archived and is now read-only.
CerebralPalsy UC
From Digital Publishing Interest Group
- Accessibility: Cerebral Palsy / average IQ
- Use case
- Bobby is a student with cerebral palsy who has a moderate level of impairment related to his diagnosis. His gross motor functioning is significantly impaired.
- He is unable to walk and relies on his motorized wheelchair to access travel around his school and his classroom. His fine motor skills are impaired but he has enough
- muscle control to operate his wheelchair and press a switch to operate both a computer and a tablet. Since this student’s muscles are impaired by his CP, his
- speech intelligibility is reduced making voice recognition software difficult to use. Bobby does have average intelligence and a high level of content knowledge, but
- communicating that information to people and software systems can be frustrating for Bobby.
- Requirement(s)
- • User interface that is fully keyboard navigable
- • External switch-interface for mouse emulation
- • Word-prediction software with contextual prediction capability and the ability to store and update user preferences and vocabulary banks
- • DAISY / ePUB3 compliance
- • The ability to bookmark and annotate text
- • The ability to interface with an augmentative communication device as a peripheral control for the computer (?)
- Stakeholder(s)
- PUBLISHERS - Education, K-12/Primary
- Daisy / ePUB3
- Ranking
- Relations/dependencies
- Optional, links to other entries in the corpus
- Relevant W3C group(s)/specification(s)
- • Accessibility Metadata
- • Web Accessibility Initiative Education and Outreach Working Group
- Comments
- Submitted by
- Pearson: Jan McSorley
- Status
- NEW