Priorities and funded actions
Objectives
* Address common accessibility challenges that persons with cognitive disabilities encounter on websites or mobile applications, such as:
– Signing in or completing authentication processes;
– Entering data or filling out forms, avoiding and correcting errors;
– Accomplishing multi-stage tasks;
– Using complex interfaces and intricate navigation patterns;
– Processing information on cluttered pages, avoiding cognitive overload;
– Getting focussed on the task at hand, limiting interruptions, reminders, and changes in content;
– Stopping animations and auto-play videos or audios;
– Understanding text and graphics;
– Identifying key points from lengthy or heavy text based pages;
– Interpreting and processing numerical information, including managing dates;
– Finding information;
– Following instructions;
– Looking for help or support
* Pilot Projects may also propose the simplification or adaptation of web-authoring tools that persons with cognitive disabilities could use to create online content
Priorities
* Priority will be given to proposals addressing most or all of the above accessibility challenges;
* Incorporating expertise from relevant social sciences and humanities disciplines (e.g. cognitive sciences, psychology, disability studies applied to the online environment);
* Addressing a wide spectrum of users and user needs ;
* Involving persons with cognitive disabilities ;
* Developing open-source or free-to-use solutions
Among financed actions
* Research and development of solutions drawing on Artificial Intelligence or other novel technologies to automatize the adaptation, personalisation and multi-modal delivery of content of websites and mobile applications in a way that facilitates the uptake and use of digital content and services by persons with cognitive disabilities;
* Research and development of solutions to automatize the simplification or adaptation of authoring tools that persons with cognitive disabilities could use to create content for websites and mobile applications;
* Research and development of solutions to adapt authoring tools to create content for websites and mobile applications that is accessible for persons with cognitive disabilities
Additional information
* This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
* Initial duration of the action: up to 12 months
Eligibility:
– Be anon-profit organisation (private or public);
– Be a public authorities;
– Be a private companies;
– Be a international organisations;
– Be a universities and other educational institutions;
– Be a research centres