News published by the University of Klagenfurt concerning the Department of Educational Science | Adult Education and Vocational Training Group

Installing apps and navigating the internet safely: project aims to facilitate access to the digital world for people with learning difficulties

Wheelchair users find stairs and steps difficult to navigate, preventing them from access to all areas. Similarly, people with impaired vision find life more difficult when there are no tactile floor markings. Kathrin Arndt is a student member of the EU Erasmus+ Project INDICO, which aims to make it easier for people with learning difficulties to access the digital world. In response to the question of what the metaphorical stairs and missing floor markings represent for people with learning difficulties, we learn: “For our target group, the language we use online is a barrier. If we want to enable people with learning difficulties to participate in the digital space on an equal footing, we need what is known as simple language.”

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