Cognitive Web Accessibility: Assistive Technology 2007

Grammar-guided writing for AAC users
"Article describes the use of software called Grammar-Guided Writing (GGW) to guide augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users through creation of sentences in e-mail construction."
Personalization of user interface for the cognitively disabled: how to test cognitive functions and ICT skills
"The work-in-progress paper addresses some issues related to personalization of the user interface of different digital devices to meet needs of people with cognitive disabilities" and " .... presents and discusses a framework for developing profile indicators." Norwegian Computing Center
Personalization of user interface for the cognitively disabled: how to test cognitive functions and ICT skills (PDF)
"The work-in-progress paper addresses some issues related to personalization of the user interface of different digital devices to meet needs of people with cognitive disabilities" and " .... presents and discusses a framework for developing profile indicators." Norwegian Computing Center
The Verneri chat – The real time communication service for people with intellectual or developmental disability: From Usability towards user participation
"... commissioned by The Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities" "The easy-to-use chat is aimed at persons who can read and write but have intellectual and developmental disabilities." Written in Finnish. ( Referring source = http://www.webaim.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=108 ) ( Author = http://fi.linkedin.com/in/soile )
WebAIM: Web and Software: Cognitive comprehensive proposal
"Individualization and Forms" "WCAG 2.0 provisions for cognitive disabilities"
WebAIM: Web and Software: Cognitive suppressing unneeded functions
"Software should provide a mechanism enabling users to individualise the interface look and feel including the modification or hiding of command buttons"
WebAIM: Web and Software: Cognitive recommendations
"Recommendations from Dr. Clayton Lewis at the February 7, 2007 TEITAC meeting" "Summary of discussion with Nancy Ward at the February 7, 2007 subcommittee meeting" "Definition of Cognitive Disabilities"
RFID Cards: A New Deal for Elderly Accessibility
Many elderly adults "... suffer from physical or cognitive disabilities, which inhibit computer use." They "... are less likely to access the Internet, and this lack of accessibility denies them increased social contact and access to information. This paper presents the design of a tangible user interface (TUI) for an email client that is suited to the physical, neurological, and cognitive needs of elderly users."
User Profiles for Adapting Speech Support in the Opera Web Browser to Disabled Users
"In this paper we describe results from our work on adapting speech support in the Opera web browser to disabled users, through using available gross categories of equipment feature (screen presentation and program control) to categorize user and usage characteristics in user profiles."
Accessibility Works: Enhancing Web Accessibility in Firefox
"This paper reviews several techniques we have discovered while trying to extend the Firefox browser to support people with visual, motor, reading, and cognitive disabilities. Our goal throughout has been to find ways to make on-the-fly transformations of Web content ...".
Improving the Outcomes of Students With Cognitive and Learning Disabilities: Phase I Development for a Web Accessibility Tool
"Paper on the development of empirically-derived technical specifications for a suite of tools to evaluate the cognitive load of a Web page." This is about WebAIM's WAVE.