MAKING FORMS ACCESSIBLE

Norbert Kuhn, Stefan Naumann, Stefan Richter, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Truar

2009

Abstract

We observe that paper is still the dominant means to transport information. In particular, for the communication between governmental authorities and citizens paper based documents still play a vital role. In this paper we discuss ideas how documents can be designed so that they can adapt almost automatically to an actual reader. Therefore, we describe an approach to design documents and governmental forms so that they may change their appearance in accordance to the preferences of their recipients. This allows the creation of documents that can better be understood by different target groups, among them elderly people, people with visual impairments or people with dyslexia.

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in Harvard Style

Kuhn N., Naumann S., Richter S., Schmidt M. and Truar A. (2009). MAKING FORMS ACCESSIBLE . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-81-4, pages 403-406. DOI: 10.5220/0001823504030406


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist09,
author={Norbert Kuhn and Stefan Naumann and Stefan Richter and Michael Schmidt and Andreas Truar},
title={MAKING FORMS ACCESSIBLE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2009},
pages={403-406},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001823504030406},
isbn={978-989-8111-81-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - MAKING FORMS ACCESSIBLE
SN - 978-989-8111-81-4
AU - Kuhn N.
AU - Naumann S.
AU - Richter S.
AU - Schmidt M.
AU - Truar A.
PY - 2009
SP - 403
EP - 406
DO - 10.5220/0001823504030406