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Flash Voice: Natural Interfaces for Universal Design 

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The interaction frontiers - Le frontiere dell'interazione

UXnet, in collaborazione con Universit� Bicocca e DISCO, organizza per l'11 Luglio (a partire dalle ore 14 presso l'edificio U7, 4� piano) "Le Frontiere dell'Interazione" un pomeriggio alla scoperta dei confini dell'HCI.

Il mio speech tratter� di un progetto di ricerca che sto' portando avanti in Consultechnology, eccone l'abstract:

Surfing the web is very complex for those users who are affected by visual disabilities: web interaction is designed for an approach which implies seeing the page. Thus disabled users rely on support software programs called Screen Readers which read the text on the pages through vocal synthesizers that simulate a human voice.

Screen readers basically make content accessible through hearing, which would otherwise be accessible only through sight.

The use of support software programs, however, represents a significant limitation for universal design, which should eliminate every barrier to any type of user, as these programs are dependent on certain operating systems and certain types of hardware (as well as on the software application itself).

Flash Voice tries to get over these barriers thereby getting closer to the ideal Universal Design which implies the guarantees of access to the content for all types of users and all types of devices.

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