Resources related to the Cognitive, Language, and Learning Discussion Group
The resources below provide further insight into the problems and solutions related to Web access for people with cognitive, language, and learning (CLL) disabilties:
Groups working on cognitive, language, and learning disabilities & access to the Web
- Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities
- Fluid Project
- Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Technologies
- ArcLink / Laurie Powers
- WebAIM
Resources on Web Access and CLL
- Bohman, P. (n.d. i) Cognitive Disabilities Part 1: We still know too little, and we do even less. WebAIM, http://www.webaim.org/articles/cognitive/cognitive_too_little.
- Bohman, P. (n.d. ii) Cognitive Disabilities Part 2: Conceptualizing design considerations. WebAIM, http://www.webaim.org/articles/cognitive/conceptualize.
- Francik, E. (1999) Telecommunications Problems and Design Strategies for People with Cognitive Disabilities. http://www.wid.org/archives/telecom/.
- Hudson, R., Weakley, R., and Firminger, P. (2005) An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties. Originally presented at OZeWAI 2004 Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia - 2 December 2004. http://www.usability.com.au/resources/cognitive.cfm
- Lewis, C. (2008) Cognitive and learning impairments. In S. Harper and Y. Yelizada (Eds.) Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research, Springer, 15-24.
- Seeman, L. (2002) Inclusion Of Cognitive Disabilities in the Web Accessibility Movement. WWW2002, Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (Honolulu, Hawaii,USA, 7-11 May 2002) . http://www2002.org/CDROM/alternate/689/
Research on cognitive, language, and learning disabilities and access to the Web
- Buckley S. J (n.d.) Reading and writing for individuals with Down syndrome - An overview. Down Syndrome Information Network, http://information.downsed.org/library/dsii/07/01/.
- Freeman, E., Clare, L., Savitch, N., Royan, L., Litherland, R., and Lindsay, M. (2005) Improving website accessibility for people with early-stage dementia: A preliminary investigation. Aging & Mental Health, September 2005, 9, pp. 442Ð448.
- Harrysson, B., Svensk, A., & Johansson, G. I. (2004). How People with Developmental Dis-abilities Navigate the Internet. British Journal of Special Education, 31, pp. 138-142.
- Redish, J. (2000) Readability formulas have even more limitations than Klare discusses. ACM Journal of Computer Documentation, 24, pp. 132-137.
- Rose, D.H. and Meyer, A. (2002) Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
- Small, J., Schallau, P., Brown, K., and Appleyard, R. (2005). Web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities. In CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Comput-ing Systems (Portland, OR, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005). CHI '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 1793-1796.
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