Cognitive Web Accessibility: Assistive Technology 2009

Comparing evaluation techniques for text readability software for adults with intellectual disabilities
"We introduce our research on the development of software to automatically simplify news articles, display them, and read them aloud for adults with ID."
Enhancing Accessibility of Web Content for the Print-Impaired and Blind People
"In this paper we present SpellCast Navi, ..." which "... acquires and parses the content of web pages, converts bi-lingual text into synthetic speech using high quality speech synthesizer, and supports a set of common functionalities such as navigation through hotkeys, audible navigation lists and more."
Meta-design: Expanding Boundaries and Redistributing Control in Design
"This paper characterizes different design methodologies and identifies the unique challenges and opportunities for meta-design. It illustrates this approach with two examples ..." one of which is "...the Memory Aiding Prompting System (MAPS) (addressing the needs of people with cognitive disabilities and their caregivers) ..."
Mobile Technology for People with Cognitive Disabilities and Their Caregivers – HCI Issues
"Participants mapped future directions for exploiting technical opportunities, with a focus on people with cognitive disabilities. HCI issues that emerged as critical include profile-based configuration of user interfaces and functionality, support for spoken presentation of text content, support for viewing web content on devices with small screens, and support for remote assistance, so that users can get help when they get stuck."
WebAIM: Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility with WAVE
Checklist to evaluate and to improve cognitive Web accessibility.
Introducing the CBBC Accessible Newsreader
"... can be accessed and navigated using a single key press, or a switch device mapped to that key ...". "... for users with reading disabilities or vision impairments is dynamically generated speech via high-end voice synthesis...".