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Accessibility Add-on Box Enabling Barrier-Free Tourism Information Systems (TIS)

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006)

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Barrier-free tourism as an enormous market potential affects the whole tourism chain covering all tourism objects from arrival, accommodations, restaurants, activities on holiday resorts up to the departure process. In order to offer barrier-free tourism, two kinds of accessibility have to be considered. Tourism accessibility extends common tourism object especially with information concerning the requirements of disabled people. Web accessibility is responsible for the presentation of tourism accessibility in a transparent and accessible way. This paper introduces an Accessibility Add-on Box as extension for existing tourism information systems which supports both providers of tourism objects in adding extra accessibility information to tourism objects as well as tourists with disabilities in retrieving required accessibility information.

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  1. Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW), Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

    Michael Winkler & Wolfram Wöß

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  1. Michael Winkler
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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. The Universal Math Access Lab, University of San Francisco, 281 Masonic San Francisco, 94117, CA, USA

    Arthur I. Karshmer

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Winkler, M., Wöß, W. (2006). Accessibility Add-on Box Enabling Barrier-Free Tourism Information Systems (TIS). In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_45

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