Empowering Communications Challenged users using Development Kits
The rapid pace of technological advancement and its
consequential widening digital divide has resulted in the
marginalization of the disabled especially the communication
challenged. The dearth of suitable technologies for the development
of assistive technologies has served to further marginalize the
communications challenged user population and widen this chasm
even further. Given the varying levels of disability there and its
associated requirement for customized solution based. This paper
explains the use of a Software Development Kits (SDK) for the
bridging of this communications divide through the use of industry
poplar communications SDKs towards identification of requirements
for communications challenged users as well as identification of
appropriate frameworks for future development initiatives.
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Error-Free 4X10 Gb/s Multiuser SPECTS O-CDMA Network Testbed,
IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, VOL. 16, NO. 9,
2004.
[2] W. Jolley, When the Tide Comes In: Towards Accessible
Telecommunications for People with Disabilities in Australia", viewed
10-04-2010,retrieved
from(http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/communications/tide.ht
m), 2003.
[3] D. Murray. A. Aspinall. Getting It: Using Information Technology to
Empower People with Communication Difficulties, 2006.
[4] S. Kaye, Disability and the Digital Divide: Disability Satstics Center,
2000.
[5] R. Garrett, New technological options for people with physical
disabilities, through the use of telecommunications equipment, Regency
Park Rehabilitation Engineering,e-bility.com, viewed 10-04-2010,
retrieved from
(http://www.ebility.com/articles/telecommunications.php), 2004.
[6] Custom Solutions, Low Incidence, viewed 10-04-2010, retrieved from
(http://www.customtyping.com/tutorials/at/low_incidence.htm), 2010.
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retrieved from
(http://www.symbolsinclusionproject.org/symbols/index.htm), 2004.
[8] J. Noyes, Talking and writing-how natural in human-machine
interaction?, Int. Journal on. Human-Computer Studies (2001) 55, 503-
519, 2001
[9] C. Baber, and J. M. Noyes, Advanced control devices: Speech control-
In User interface design for electronic appliances, pp. 190-208, London:
Taylor & Francis, 2001.
[10] British Telecom Innovate and Design, "Keeping an open mind: How
BT-s changing infrastructure has become a blueprint for new ways of
doing business", viewed 10-04-2010, retrieved from
(http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/Innovation/SDK/index.htm), 2010.
[11] J. Seale, M. Wald, and E.A. Draffan, Reflections on the value of
participatory research methods in developing accessible design in higher
education, University of Southampton, 2009.
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consequential widening digital divide has resulted in the
marginalization of the disabled especially the communication
challenged. The dearth of suitable technologies for the development
of assistive technologies has served to further marginalize the
communications challenged user population and widen this chasm
even further. Given the varying levels of disability there and its
associated requirement for customized solution based. This paper
explains the use of a Software Development Kits (SDK) for the
bridging of this communications divide through the use of industry
poplar communications SDKs towards identification of requirements
for communications challenged users as well as identification of
appropriate frameworks for future development initiatives.", keywords = "Assistive Technology, Communication, Disability,
Marginalization, Software Development Kit, Waveform and
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