PROSPECTS IN COMPUTER- ASSISTED TRAINING FOR THE PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
PROSPECTS IN COMPUTER- ASSISTED TRAINING FOR THE PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Summary/Abstract: We assist to great changes in informatics area and education became dependent by the information’ technologies. Lately has been increasingly more emphasis on creating assistive technologies, in particular direction followed by Microsoft. Latest version of the operating system from Microsoft, Microsoft Vista demonstrates this. It has brought considerable improvements in terms of voice recognition (with an achievement degree of over 95%), aiming at further developing this category of software. Microsoft implemented in Windows XP operating system the Accessibility Options, which allow users to set certain options for assisting them. The same functionality has Ease of Access in Windows Vista. This article’s purpose is to contribute to a better understanding of assistive software necessity in computer-assisted training for the persons with disabilities. Persons with disabilities have difficulties in interacting with the computer using conventional procedures, it’s therefore useful to develop software with high accessibility and appropriate peripheral categories of disabilities.

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