Analysis of ICT-based assistive solutions for people with disabilities

Abstract

Nowadays more than a billion people with various disabilities face barriers in inclusion. ICT-based assistive solutions are high-tech approach for overcoming those barriers. While ICT devices become more and more available and affordable, as well as ICT-based assistive solution more and more numerous, the systematic solution which would enable people with disabilities to search for appropriate ICT-based assistive solution still lacks. This paper is a step towards in that direction. The paper firstly proposes a taxonomy for ICT-based assistive solution and then uses the proposed taxonomy to systematically categorize and describe currently available ICT-based assistive solutions on the global market. Finally, the paper proposes the operationalization of the proposed taxonomy in a form of the spreadsheet tool which enables user friendly search of indexed ICT-based assistive solutions.