Includes people with disabilities, but also many elderly users and "situationally handicapped" users. They have, e.g., problems
1. Positioning the
mouse, clicking and dragging.
Mouse operations should also be
performable using the keyboard only
(e.g., use cursor keys for
navigation, function key for selecting menu items)
2. Simultaneously
pressing two or more keys (e.g., CTRL and SHIFT).
Allow users to press these keys
sequentially.
3. Entering larger
amounts of data
Provide default values
Provide next
possible values when user presses a key
Successively
provide next possible value; stop when user hits a key
Expand input to
first possible value
Allow users to define aliases
and shortcuts
For severe forms of
manual impairment, special input devices are needed (head mouse, foot mouse
, suction tubes
, speech recognition
)