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Comparison of Guidelines for the Accessible Design of Augmented Reality Applications

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Innovative technologies, such as augmented reality, have the potential to disrupt the way people use technology today. Unfortunately, numerous people will not be able to use and derive value from augmented reality applications in their daily lives, if these are not designed with accessibility in mind.

Yet, still only few guidelines on the accessible design of augmented reality applications exist to date. This work summarizes and compares the most important guidelines devised at this point. This includes both guidelines by commercial vendors and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as well as international standards. In addition, a catalog of common criteria is derived from these guidelines.

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  1. Hochschule der Medien, Responsive Media Experience Research Group, Nobelstraße 10, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Sebastian Koch, Tobias Ableitner & Gottfried Zimmermann

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  1. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Kouroupetroglou

  3. European University Cyprus, Engomi, Cyprus

    Katerina Mavrou

  4. University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Roberto Manduchi

  5. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Mario Covarrubias Rodriguez

  6. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penáz

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Koch, S., Ableitner, T., Zimmermann, G. (2022). Comparison of Guidelines for the Accessible Design of Augmented Reality Applications. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G., Mavrou, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Penáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP-AAATE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13342. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08645-8_11

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