Accessible User-Interfaces for People with Cognitive Disabilities

Equal access to information in the digital age is very important for everybody including people with disabilities. Web-pages are often not accessible for people with cognitive disabilities as content is often difficult to understand. Therefore we are developing a software tool that helps people with cognitive disabilities to better understand web-content. The tool provides different means to simplify web-content. These simplifications can be something very simple, like layout simplifications for better readability. They can also be very complex like automated translation of text in easy to read or symbol annotation using artificial intelligence. A prototype of an innovative user interface for these functionalities should be designed and evaluated within large scale involvement of users with cognitive disabilities as co-researchers to better understand and define how to present, interact and operate such a tool for better understanding and usability. This will lead to new insights on the requirements of people with cognitive disabilities and a codesigned interface concept.