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  • Publication
    EQUAL: Towards an inclusive design approach to novice programming languages and computing environments for native users
    ( 2002)
    Basawaraj, P.
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    Maetzel, K.
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    Neuhold, E.J.
    In the current textual programming languages (conventional, novice, etc.) and programming paradigms (e.g., procedural, declarative, functional etc.), the programming constructs, semantic concepts, and syntactic elements are based on English paradigm and implemented using ASCII character sets, seriously limiting the universal access to programming and computing skills. Especially, nonEnglish speaking native users (students, adults etc.) from nonEnglish speaking geographical regions, including visually challenged users, encounter serious cognitive, semantic and syntactic difficulties in understanding and translating their programming plans into the syntax and semantics of English based paradigm of a programming language. The authors have developed an inclusive, universal design framework with flexible cognitive, semantic and syntactic, and cultural adaptations in the textual languages and their compilers/interpreters to satisfy the computing requirements of native users.
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    Universal usability issues of textual information structures, commands, and languages of native visually challenged users
    ( 2002)
    Patil, B.
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    Mätzel, K.
    ;
    Neuhold, E.J.
    Current textual languages (e.g., textual information structures, command and query languages, and programming languages) are neither accessible nor adaptable to the computing requirements of native visually challenged users. In this paper, we identify semantic, syntactic, linguistic and cognitive issues and accessibility factors at various level of human-computer interaction and proposes a inclusive, universal design framework, that enables not only linguistically handicapped users but also visually challenged users to command and operate computers, and learn programming.