Aspects and the Context for the Research

The literacy portal was created by the international and interdisciplinary team with the financial support of the European Union in the context of ICT Program, 7th framework – ICT-2011.5.5 (288596). The project aimed at the creation of a modern online portal for training of the reading technique and understanding, the effective usage of the internet environment in daily life, and the creation of the social communities of the users. The researchers used the mixed strategy of the research side by side with the triangulation methods from the analysis of documents, web pages content through the focus groups, user testing to the surveys. The portal was created using the rules of the human-centered design (HCD) approach. The initial steps in the HCD process specify that you need to start with the analysis of future users through article research, analysis of the current web application for the same target audience, and through personal interviews with people with dyslexia. The authors extracted and described the possible tasks for the literacy portal based on the information.