Affiliation:
1. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Abstract
Free assistive technology software can be an answer to various problems of the market, most importantly the products' high cost. The focus of this chapter is on open source software and freeware available at online repositories like Raising the Floor, EmpTech, Adaptech, ATHENA, OATSoft, and Project:Possibility. The most important features and suggested information fields for each included application are presented, followed by a comparison of the repositories in the context of these features. Finally, brief descriptions and prominent examples of free AT applications are given in the following categories: augmentative and alternative communication, click helpers, content simplification, eye control, games, head control, joystick control, media players, mouse enhancers, on-screen keyboards, scanning, shortcuts and macros, stylus control, switch control, talking browsers, text entry, text readers, voice control, and word prediction.
Reference58 articles.
1. Accessibility Foundation. (2013). Game accessibility-The accessibility of computer games. Retrieved from http://www.game-accessibility.com.
2. Adaptech Research Network. (2012). Downloads. Retrieved from http://www.adaptech.org/en/downloads.
3. Berdou, E. (2007). Managing the Bazaar: Commercialization and Peripheral Participation in Mature, Community-Led Free/Open Source Software Projects. (Ph.D. dissertation). London, London School of Economics and Political Science.
4. Carnegie Mellon University. (2013). Remote commander. Pebbles Project Home. Retrieved from http://www.pebbles.hcii.cmu.edu/software/remotecmd/index.php.
5. Casson, T., & Ryan, P. S. (2006). Open standards, open source adoption in the public sector, and their relationship to Microsoft’s market dominance. In S. Bolin (Ed.), Standards Edge: Unifier or Divider? (87-99). Hunt Valley, MD: Sheridan Books.
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献