• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.9
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• pp.181-188
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• 2013

A new scheme needed to improve digital information accessibility with overall environment for handicapped persons is introduced in this paper. The improvement effects of digital information accessibility for handicapped persons are expected only when all the necessary hardwares and softwares need to input, process, output of information with social elements are provided all together. There are many previous papers regarded on web accessibility or IT technologies for handicapped persons separately. However, these subjects and computer accessibility are described here as a combined subject, and a new integrated improvement scheme including social factors and technical factors is suggested in this paper.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.365-370
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• 2014

Importance of Web accessability for handicapped persons is ever increasing in the information society with increasing role of the Web. The Web accessibility of handicapped person related Web sites were compared with the school Web sites in order to figure out the realities of handicapped person related Web site's accessibilities. According to the experiment, the Web accessibility of handicapped person related Web sites got lower scores than general school Web sites. The research result shows that more improvement efforts for the Web accessibility of handicapped person related Web sites are required.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.373-378
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• 2013

Web accessibility should be guaranteed regardless of disability in current information society. Automatic tools are needed to evaluate a huge number of web sites. Five pre-developed web accessibility evaluation tools are selected and experimenting results are compared and analyzed in this paper. The research results will be very helpful for users who are selecting a web accessibility evaluation tool.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.131-138
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• 2004

Considering international trends and foreign cases, it can be easily expected that web accessibility issue is becoming more and more important. While information technology has changed Korean society rapidly and widely, there are many People who have difficulties in using information services such as the elderly and persons with disabilities. One of the big barriers they face is the lack of accessibility of web services. These social problems have been rarely studied in Korea but surface as very import subjects to be addressed concerning IT and welfare policy. The objective of this study is to ensure web accessibility right for visually handicapped and reduce digital divide through development of a recommendation guideline of mobile internet user interface. In this study the trends of politics and laws related to web accessibility in developed countries are surveyed and some advisable recommendation guidelines of mobile internet user interface for visually handicapped to improve web accessibility are proposed.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.141-147
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• 2012

Blind persons are information alienation class in spite of development of an Information-Communication technology. Need dog's paw of a business automation technology that apply Information-Communication know-how to do these in white-collar job go to work. I wish to develop VI 05 that can improve computer practical use ability by developing integration solution that can analyze know-how that need in transaction of business and overcome this technologically. Because developed VI 05 reserves and handles work that require screen spread, function that convert data of screen including character into voice, accuracy by integration solution that is necessary in transaction of business the process simplificaton make function that need in Secretariat state process such as knowing function have.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.391-394
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• 2017

Persons with low vision impairment refers to visual and visual impairments that can not be remedied by medical or optical methods due to inherited or acquired eye disease. People with low vision impairments account for more than 240 million people in the world and have only a few remaining eyesight. We will discuss the improvement of information accessibility of low visually impaired people and future research methods through research on Web UI/UX in mobile web environment for low visibility handicapped in the environment where information can be accessed through existing screen reader (TTS) and screen enlargement function.