XO Accessibility
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Introduction
This is an ILXO project. If you'd like to participate, please contact Mel Chua - collaborators and contributors welcome!
How can the XO be used by children with various learning and physical disabilities as a tool that they build themselves in order to differently interact with the learning environment that surrounds them? This research project will explore the usability of the XO and its various activities and modes from the perspectives of various types of "differently-abled" users. We will also be creating inventions and adaptations to make the set of core activities more usable by children with special needs. Universal design will be used rather than creating separate solutions for disabled and non-disabled users.
Activity grid
General
- Charging (inserting/removing power plug)
- Carrying
- Replacing a battery
- Disassembly/repair
- Opening and closing the XO
Journal
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Browse
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Read
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Write
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Newsreader
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Paint
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Record
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
TamTam
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Pippy
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Etoys
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
TurtleArt
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Calculate
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Measure
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Distance
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Terminal
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Log
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Analyze
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Chat
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
XOIRC
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Scratch
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
Speak
- keyboard
- touchpad
- camera
- analog-in
- microphone
- tablet-mode/rotate-screen
- rocker/d-pad
- USB
- display
- speakers/headphones
To do
By June 6
- Create a list of the most common disabilities that children with XOs in a classroom may have to deal with.
- Create a list of core Activities and functionalities we want all children to have access to.
- Create a grid composed of the above two axes, and go through assessing the current accessibility options for each.
- Email the accessibility list with the current findings and invite ideas for how to fill in the grid.
By June 13
- Create a list of possible options/projects (either design-from-scratch, find commercial solutions for, or improve existing designs) for those points on the grid we don't think are filled-in enough, and make a schedule for completion of these subprojects.