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Enhancing email text production for users with motor impairments

Keller, Susan and Owens, Janet 2001, Enhancing email text production for users with motor impairments, in Proceedings of the twelfth Australasian Conference on Information Systems : 4-7 December 2001 Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W., pp. 349-358.

Document type: Conference Paper
Collection: School of Information Systems

Title Enhancing email text production for users with motor impairments
Author(s) Keller, Susan
Owens, Janet
Conference name Australasian Conference on Information Systems (12th : 2001 : Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.)
Conference location Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.
Conference dates 4-7 December 2001
Title of proceedings Proceedings of the twelfth Australasian Conference on Information Systems : 4-7 December 2001 Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
Editor(s) Finnie, Gavin
Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka
Lo, Bruce
Publication date 2001
Start page 349
End page 358
Publisher Southern Cross University
Place of publication Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.
Keyword(s) accessibility
electronic mail
client centered design
Summary People with motor impairments who use a switch device to interface with computers have poor access to affordable software for email communication. The MultiMail email package was developed with government support to provide email access solutions for these users and for others with a range of disabilities. In this paper, the development of accessible on-screen keyboards and a word prediction program which facilitates email text production is discussed. Technology solutions were informed by people with disabilities through focus group and survey data. The resulting cross-disability design of MultiMail provides innovative and cost-free solutions to email text production.
ISBN 186384483X
9781863844833
Language eng
Field of Research 080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice ©2001 The authors
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30004483
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