Adaptive Computers and Communication Devices

Question 1

Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI)

Answer 1

• Content Accessibility
• Web browsers, media players usable with assistive
  technology
• Web-authoring tools and technology to support production
  of accessible Web content and sites

Question 2

Alternative Mouse Systems

Answer 2

• Trackball – upside- down mouse
• Touchpad
• Joystick
• Mousekeys – numerical keypad
• Head wand
• Eye gaze: looks at location on screen to make selection

Question 3

Alternative Keyboards

Answer 3

• ABC instead of QWERTY
• Onscreen virtual keyboards: mouse, joystick or
  pointing device
• Pointing devices, switches

Question 4

Types of Switches

Answer 4

• Touch: any contact with switch surface
• Pneumatic: air pressure change from a sip or puff
• Squeeze: air pressure change from a squeeze
• Movement: any specified movement
• Muscle/Neural: contraction/relaxation of a part of body

Question 5

Alternative and Augmentative Communication

Answer 5

• Communication approach that supplements or replaces natural speech and/or writing
• Persons with ALS, Parkinson’s, aphasia, TBI, cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, autism