Scientific and technological reports
Scientific and technological reports are listed under the following subjects:
Assistive devices and ICT systems
Biometrics
Braille and tactile data
Hearing impaired
Icons
Interactive digital television
Introductions to technologies
Keypads and user interfaces
Labelling and packaging
Mobility and orientation
Public access terminals
Smart cards
Standards
Telecommunications - Accessibility
Telecommunications - Policy
Transport
Typefaces
Other research
Assistive Devices and ICT Systems
- Access-Ability: Making Technology More Useable By People With Disabilities (2004)
- Requirements for the Interconnection of Assistive Technology Devices and Information and Communication Technology Systems (2001)
- Technological Developments for Blind People: The Next Ten Years (1998)
- Technology for Visually Disabled Persons: The Widening Gap (1995)
- The Development of Information and Communication Technology Systems to Include People with a Visual Impairment (2002)
Biometrics
- Developments in Biometrics (2005)
- Identification of Accessibility Issues for Visually Impaired Users of Biometric Technologies: Fingerprint Readers (2006)
Braille and Tactile Data
- Braille Cell Dimensions
- Braille Labelling of Medicines: Meeting Directive 2004/27/EC (2004)
- Presentation of Tactile Materials: The Need for Research (1999)
- Tactile Perception and Design (2002)
- What is Moon? (2007)
Hearing Impaired
- Dual Sensory Impairment - Devices for Deafblind People (2001)
- Interference and Electro-Magnetic Compatibility
Icons
- A Short Investigation into Icon Preference for Volume Buttons: Part 1 (2006)
- A Short Investigation into Icon Preference for Volume Buttons: Part 2 (2007)
- A Short Investigation into Colour Contrast Preference for Buttons (2006)
- An Investigation into Audio Device Icon Preference (2007)
Interactive Digital Television
- Accessible Universal Design of Interactive Digital Television (2003)
- Inclusive Design of Interactive Television (2000)
- Interactive Digital Television Services for People with Low Vision (2003)
Introductions to Technologies
- Developments in Mobile Communications (2002)
- Developments in Voice over Broadband (2004)
- Developments in Wireless Systems (2002)
- Developments in RFID (2006)
- Developments in Near Field Communications (2006)
- Developments in Smart Card Systems (2004)
- Developments in Biometrics (2005)
- Developments in Speech Systems
- Developments in Electronic Vision Systems (2002)
- Developments in Wayfinding (2004)
- Developments in Location Based Services (2006)
- Developments in Transport Information Systems (2003)
Keypads and User Interfaces
- An Assessment of the Benefit of Internal Illumination in Keypads (2007)
- Designing an Accessible Membrane Keypad - An Investigation of Tactile Features (2007)
- The Design of Man-Machine Interfaces for Use by Visually Disabled People (1995)
- Which Button? - Designing User Interface for People with Visual Impairments (2000)
Labelling and Packaging
- Braille Labelling of Medicines: Meeting Directive 2004/27/EC (2004)
- The Forgotten Customers: One in Ten have Difficulty with Packaging (1995)
Mobility and Orientation
- An Orientation and Navigation System for Blind Pedestrians (1996)
- Mobility of Blind and Elderly People Interacting with Computers (1997)
Public Access Terminals
Smart cards
- Design of Smart Card Systems to Meet the Needs of Disabled and Elderly Persons (1995)
- Extension of Coding of User Requirements - Discussion Document (2003)
- Identification card systems - Man-Machine interface - Part 4: Coding of user requirements for people with special needs
- Identification Card Systems - Man-Machine Interface - Part 5: Embossed Symbols for Differentiation of Application on ID-1 Cards - Revised
- Making Cash Dispensers Easier to Use (1996)
- New European Standards on the Man-Machine Interface for Card Systems (1999)
- Nightmare on Smart Street (1995)
- Proposed Revision to EN 1332-4: Coding of User Requirements for People with Special Needs - Version (September 2006)
- Selecting Cards by Touch (1999)
- Smart Cards: Accessibility and Social Inclusion (2004)
- Smart Cards: Interfaces for People with Disabilities (1996)
- Smart Cards: The Coding of User Interface Requirements (1996)
- Smart Cards: The Forgotten Customers (1995)
- Tactile Identifier (1995)
- The Use of Electronic Purses by Disabled People: What are the Needs? (1998)
- User Requirements for Cardholder Identification, Authentication and Digital Signatures (2002)
Standards
- How Are ISO Standards Made? (2003)
- Involving People With Disabilities in the Standardisation Process (June 2007)
- Report on International ICT Accessibility Standards Proposed, Being Developed and Recently Published (January 2008)
- Report on International ICT Accessibility Standards Proposed, Being Developed and Recently Published (October 2007)
- Report on International ICT Accessibility Standards Proposed, Being Developed and Recently Published (July 2007)
- Report on International ICT Accessibility Standards Proposed, Being Developed and Recently Published (March 2007)
Telecommunications - Accessibility
- Bluetooth: Can It Help Disabled People? (2000)
- Design Features of Terminals to Improve Accessibility by Visually Impaired Persons (2000)
- Guidelines for the Design of Screen and Web Phones to be Accessible by Visually Disabled Persons (1998)
- Hearing Aids and Telephones (1995)
- Making Life Easier: How new telecommunication services could benefit people with disabilities (2005)
- Mobile Telephony: Will Future Developments be Accessible to Visually Impaired Users? (2000)
- Relay Services (1995)
- TelecomForAll (1999)
- Telecommunications - Guidelines for Accessibility (1999)
- Telecommunications: The Missing Links for People with Disabilities (1996)
- Telematic Systems in Public Places for People with Disabilities (1995)
- Telephones - What features do disabled people need? (1999)
- The Use of Wireless Technologies by People With Disabilities: A European Perspective (2004)
- A Wider Market for Digital Mobile Phones - Meeting the Needs of Hearing Impaired People
Telecommunications - Policy
- Approaches for Influencing the Design of New Telecommunication Systems and Services (1999)
- Bridging the Gap? - Access to telecommunications for all people (2002)
- Call Barred? Inclusive Design of Wireless Systems (2000)
- Disaster or Opportunity? The Impact of Telecommunications Deregulation on People with Disabilities (1997)
- EQUAL MEASURES: Closing the Accessibility Gap (2005)
- E.U. Review of Telecommunications Directives
- Inclusive Design in Convergent Systems
- Opening Up the Telecommunications Market: Proposal for an EC Directive on Interconnection in Telecommunications (1995)
- Outwardly Mobile - What can disabled users expect from UMTS, the new generation in mobile communications?
- Restricted Communication? - What should disabled people expect from OFCOM? (2002)
- Telecommunications Services: Access by Disabled People
- Telecommunications Terminals Supply - A Universal Service Model (2001)
- The Challenge of Convergence for Inclusive Design (2000)
- The PhoneAbility Telecommunications Charter: The Response (2001)
- The Telecommunications Charter
- Universal Service (1996)
- Universal Service in Telecommunications: Follow-up to the Oftel Consultative Document of December 1995 (1996)
Transport
Typefaces
- A New Font for Digital Television Subtitles (1998)
- Investigation into the Legibility of Tiresias Keyfont Version 1 and the Development of Tiresias Keyfont Version 2 (2006)
- LPfont - An Investigation
into the Legibility of Large Print Typefaces (2001)
Text Display Preferences on Self-Service Terminals by Visually Disabled People (1994) - The Tiresias Family of Fonts (2003)
- Tiresias - A family of typefaces designed for legibility on screen based systems, signs and labels (2000)
- Tiresias LPfont - A large print typeface specially designed for people with low vision
Other Research
- An Investigation into the Accessibility of Clasps (applicable to locking mechanisms on devices)
- Keeping Step - Scientific and Technological Research for Visually Impaired People (2001)
- The Disability Discrimination Act - The European Dimension
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