The concept of accessibility is quite broad. It can affect areas from art to transportation to computer systems and technology. It can be defined as the extent to which any product, device, service or environment is accessible to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be thought of as the ‘ability to access’ and benefit from some system or object. The term is often associated with disabled people and their rights to access facilities, often through the use of assistive technology. Groups of disabled users who need to use aids for digital inclusion through the provision of equipment to access computer resources may have visual, auditory, speech, cognitive, and motor disabilities. In this chapter, we focus our attention on visually impaired users’ issues. Part of their necessary equipment for digital accessibility of computer resources are so-called speech synthesizers and screen readers. Through them, they access the information architecture and content of the computer systems. The purpose of this chapter is to propose an integrated accessibility audit approach for desktop applications in Windows operating system. The objectives of the study are researching the basic equipment through which visually impaired people access Windows operating systems as the most widely used one worldwide; examining the features of those tools targeted to the Cyrillic alphabet users; testing the accessibility of desktop software for finding accessibility issues.
Nacheva, R. A Toolkit for Ensuring Accessibility of Operating Systems: The Cyrillic Readers Case. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publ., 2024 279-294. - (Springer Geography ; F3643), ISSN 2194-315X (print) ; 2194-3168 (online).
Nacheva, R. A Toolkit for Ensuring Accessibility of Operating Systems: The Cyrillic Readers Case. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publ., 2024 279-294. - (Springer Geography ; F3643), ISSN 2194-315X (print) ; 2194-3168 (online).
Nacheva, R. (2024) A Toolkit for Ensuring Accessibility of Operating Systems: The Cyrillic Readers Case, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publ. 279-294. - (Springer Geography ; F3643), ISSN 2194-315X (print) ; 2194-3168 (online).
Nacheva, R. (2024). A Toolkit for Ensuring Accessibility of Operating Systems: The Cyrillic Readers Case. Digital Geography : Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet and Modern Society (IMS 2023), Springer Publ. 279-294. - (Springer Geography ; F3643).
Nacheva R. A Toolkit for Ensuring Accessibility of Operating Systems: The Cyrillic Readers Case. Digital Geography : Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet and Modern Society (IMS 2023). 2024; 279-294. - (Springer Geography ; F3643). ISBN: ISSN 2194-315X (print) ; 2194-3168 (online).
