Today, the internet connects 66.2% of the world’s population online. Accessibility to digital information is crucial for social inclusion and equal opportunities. In this respect, it is considered to be a fundamental human right. However, most websites contain accessibility errors, creating a significant barrier for users with impairments. Accessib...
Audio description (AD), an accessibility service that narrates visual elements for persons with visual disabilities, is starting to be implemented into video game trailers and cutscenes. However, its potential to improve accessibility in real-time gameplay has yet to be fully explored. In their final project of a Master's degree, a team of game des...
This work proposes to reflect on the invisible design in terms of materiality perceived in a haptic way, where the growing demand for phigital experiences reveals the intermittence between physical and digital environments whose limits are diffuse. Inhabiting scenarios in transit as a result of the post-digital era, the post-pandemic world and empo...
Abstract Verbalism represents a controversial issue in the field of visual disability. It is frequently stated that blind people use statements with words and expressions which are not based on direct sensory experience. Sometimes it is considered a pathology or something specific to blind people. In taking the work of three blind researchers – Pie...
Abstract Verbalism represents a controversial issue in the field of visual disability. It is frequently stated that blind people use statements with words and expressions which are not based on direct sensory experience. Sometimes it is considered a pathology or something specific to blind people. In taking the work of three blind researchers – Pie...
This article aims to present some discussions about the use of (auto)biographical narratives as source to realize Mathematics Education's researches having, as background, considerations about Inclusive (Mathematics) Education. Throughout the article, these issues will be discussed from some memoir excerpts related to Rosa's (2013) master's researc...
Published in Middle East African journal of ophthalmology
Childhood blindness and visual impairment (CBVI) are major disabilities that compromise the normal development of children. Health resources and practices to prevent CBVI are suboptimal in most countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). We reviewed the magnitude and the etiologies of childhood visual disabilities based on the estimates us...
Published in BMC Ophthalmology
BackgroundGlaucoma will undoubtedly impact on a person's ability to function as they go about their day-to-day life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of published knowledge in quality of life (QoL) and visual disability studies for glaucoma, and make comparisons with similar research in other chronic conditions.MethodsA system...
