Internet Users with Special Needs

Cloud-based Infrastructure for Internet Users with Special Needs

Phys.org | July 7, 2015

EU researchers are developing a new, broad-ranging, cloud-based infrastructure that makes the Internet more accessible for users with special needs. The new 'ecosystem' enables people previously excluded from ICT to get help using technology and aims to use their feedback to develop new apps and services.

Disability and Internet Usage. Source: http://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/almost-half-people-disabilities-dont-use-internet-why/ (Almost half of people with disabilities don’t use the Internet: but why?)

<more at http://phys.org/news/2015-07-cloud-based-infrastructure-internet-users-special.html; related link: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-internet-accessible.html (Making the internet accessible to everyone, January 16, 2015) and http://oxis.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/almost-half-people-disabilities-dont-use-internet-why/>