We present WordMelodies, an inclusive, cross platform, mobile app that supports children with visual impairments in the acquisition of basic literacy skills through 8 different exercises. WordMelodies has been designed and evaluated by three domain experts in assistive technologies and education for children with visual impairments. After three design and evaluation iterations the app is fully accessible, except for one limitation of the cross platform development toolkit used.

WordMelodies: supporting children with visual impairment in learning literacy / S. Mascetti, G. Leontini, C. Bernareggi, D. Ahmetovic - In: ASSETS '19[s.l] : ACM, 2019. - ISBN 9781450366762. - pp. 642-644 (( Intervento presentato al 21. convegno International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility tenutosi a Pittsburgh nel 2019 [10.1145/3308561.3354587].

WordMelodies: supporting children with visual impairment in learning literacy

S. Mascetti
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C. Bernareggi;D. Ahmetovic
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2019

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We present WordMelodies, an inclusive, cross platform, mobile app that supports children with visual impairments in the acquisition of basic literacy skills through 8 different exercises. WordMelodies has been designed and evaluated by three domain experts in assistive technologies and education for children with visual impairments. After three design and evaluation iterations the app is fully accessible, except for one limitation of the cross platform development toolkit used.
Visual Impairment; Education; Accessibility; Literacy
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2019
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