FastScanner: An Accessibility Tool for Motor Impaired Users

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  • Stavroula Ntoa
  • Anthony Savidis
  • Constantine Stephanidis
چکیده

People with motor impairments often face difficulties in accessing interactive applications and services. This paper presents a tool, named FastScanner that enables motor-impaired users to work with any application running in Microsoft Windows, without the need of a posteriori modification, through the use of binary switches as an alternative to traditional input devices. Evaluation of the tool has shown that it facilitates effective and efficient

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تاریخ انتشار 2004