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This paper introduces the project: “Human Diversity: a lens on the Program Living without Boundaries”. The project “Human Diversity”, financed by the Brazilian Social Development Ministry, puts the “Design for All lens” on the Program in order to conduct studies and research with the aim to support the assessment as well as to help conducting and indicating adjustments to improve the Program’s implementation. In this work the focus is put on the tools, techniques and approaches that are being used to build up the “Brazilian Accessibility Observatory”.
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Pereira-Klen, A., Klen, E.R., Capitanio, T., Barros, F. (2014). Living without Boundaries: A Brazilian Observatory. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and Accessibility Practice. UAHCI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8516. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07509-9_25
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