Project CAPKOM: Fostering Web Literacy of People with Cognitive Disabilities

People with physical or sensory disabilities are a well-researched user group considering or with considerations to their needs and prerequisites to use the web, while potential users with cognitive disabilities lack adequate solutions to overcome barriers resulting from their disability. An innovative graphical user interface developed within the project CAPKOM intends to improve the web experience of people with cognitive disabilities by a twofold approach: the user interface will be instantly adaptable to the very different demands of people with cognitive disabilities and iterative user tests will feed results into software development activities, first exemplified by a community art portal for people with cognitive disabilities.