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Toward a design of word processing environment for people with disabilities

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The study presented in this paper is aimed at identifying text editing actions that are routinely performed by the users when composing a text document and that are not directly supported by common word processors. The results of this study will help a design of a novel word processing interface controlled by device with a limited number of input signals, operated by people with certain motor disabilities.

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      ASSETS '12: Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
      October 2012
      321 pages
      ISBN:9781450313216
      DOI:10.1145/2384916

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