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Breaking Barriers with Assistive Macros

Published: 26 October 2015 Publication History

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People with disabilities rely on assistive technology (AT) software to interact with their mobile device. The overall functionality of AT depends on a set of requirements that are not always fulfilled by application developers, often resulting in cumbersome and slow interactions, or even render content inaccessible. To address these issues we present Assistive Macros, an accessibility service developed to enable users to perform a sequence of commands with a single selection. Macros can be created manually by the user or automatically by detecting repeated sequences of interactions. In this paper, we report a preliminary case study with our prototype involving a motor impaired user and his caregivers

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ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility
October 2015
466 pages
ISBN:9781450334006
DOI:10.1145/2700648
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Published: 26 October 2015

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  1. assistive technologies
  2. macros
  3. mobile
  4. multi-impairment

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