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People with communication needs use Assistive Technology (AT) to participate in society, be at the family, school among others. There is a variety of different Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices due to end-users have different communication needs. AraBoard is an AAC tool developed with the aim to facilitate the functional communication to people with complex communication needs. In this paper, AraBoard tool is presented. In order to ensure the quality of the tool, an accessibility evaluation has been carried out. Following a methodical approach, two main steps have been followed in the evaluation process: (1) Two lists of checkpoints have been developed based on the study and analysis of accessibility standards and related work in the domain of AAC; (2) An evaluation using these resources has been conducted by accessibility experts. The results from the study indicate a high level of accessibility in AraBoard tool, besides some suggestions about new requirements to integrate in the tool have been obtained.
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Baldassarri, S., Marco, J., Cerezo, E., Moreno, L. (2014). Accessibility Evaluation of an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) Tool. 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_50
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