{"title":"EASIER system. Language resources for cognitive accessibility.","authors":"Lourdes Moreno, Rodrigo Alarcón, Paloma Martínez","doi":"10.1145/3373625.3418006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Difficulties in understanding texts that contain unusual words can create accessibility barriers for people with cognitive, language and learning disabilities. In this work, the EASIER system, a web system that provides various tools which improve cognitive accessibility, is presented. From a text in Spanish, complex words are detected and synonyms, a definition and a pictogram are offered for each complex word detected. Language and accessibility resources were used, such as easy-to-read dictionaries. The web system can be accessed from both desktop computers and mobile devices. Moreover, a browser extension is also offered.","PeriodicalId":433618,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3418006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Difficulties in understanding texts that contain unusual words can create accessibility barriers for people with cognitive, language and learning disabilities. In this work, the EASIER system, a web system that provides various tools which improve cognitive accessibility, is presented. From a text in Spanish, complex words are detected and synonyms, a definition and a pictogram are offered for each complex word detected. Language and accessibility resources were used, such as easy-to-read dictionaries. The web system can be accessed from both desktop computers and mobile devices. Moreover, a browser extension is also offered.