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From our recent work, it appears that we in accessibility/inclusion have been underestimating the challenge of cognitive disabilities — and digital literacy. We have always thought it was really tough, but our recent work has caused us to re-assess both the size of the problem (much larger than we thought) and the growing impact. We now think it is a much wider problem than we understood, and one that goes beyond those we have thought of as having cognitive disabilities. It intersects with digital literacy but also has implications for those with other disabilities as well. I will be discussing the concept of Technology Quotient (TQ) as well as approaches we are exploring to address access by people with cognitive disabilities and low digital literacy today, tomorrow, and for next-next generation technologies.

Talk slides: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/01/Underestimating-the-challenge-of-cognitive-disabilities-SLIDES.pdf

See more on this and other talks at Microsoft Research: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/underestimating-the-challenge-of-cognitive-disabilities-and-digital-literacy-directions-to-explore-for-current-next-and-next-next-generation-uis/