This document discusses improving the accessibility of the British Library's touchscreen kiosk interface for users with cognitive limitations. It will analyze problems with the existing audio interface, define user goals, research potential solutions, and create prototypes. Key issues with the current interface include the need for headphones, lack of audio cues for visual actions, and no audio translations. The target user group is people with cognitive limitations like autism or Down syndrome ages 7-75. User research will assess accessibility and gather feedback via a questionnaire. Potential concepts for enhancing accessibility include a directional sound system, language translations, and interactive audio for navigation.

1. Turning the Pages Touch Screen
Interface
British Library Audio ADR
Sarat Koneti

2. Brief
Making the British library interface more accessible to people with
the cognitive limitations /intellectually disabled by embedding new
audio features to BL-Kiosk
Improving the user experience using Audio

3. Audio ADR Strategy
• Research on existing BL-Kiosk
• Find user audio problems
• Define User Goals
• Critically analyse and asses the concept ideas to improve
accessibility & user experience of the Kiosk
• List all possible audio features
• Produce initial visuals/audio of concept deliverables (mp3
files, sketches, recordings)
• Sketch/wireframe NEW interface with audio for screen
solutions
• Create diagrams and prototypes

4. Existing Interface
Right now we are just concentrating on the audio problems of the
Interface/Kisosk

5. Audio problems of the existing interface
• Use of Headphone
• No audio clues for visual actions
• No audio translations for the books
• No volume controller

6. User Group
• International and Multicultural Audience
• Age group: 7 -75years
Target User Group
• People with cognitive limitations(ex: autism, down syndrome)

7. User Research
1. Accessibility
• Proportion of people in the general population with special needs
is high.
• Accessibility refers to �the degree to which software can be used
comfortably by a wide variety of people, including those who have
cognitive limitations and disabilities.
• � 3 types - profound / severe / moderate / mild
• MILD/MODERATE :
Problems in reading
Problems in communicating
Suffer from memory loss
Troubles in solving problems
Limited understanding of day – day process

8. Questionnaire script:
1. What do you think this kiosk is for?
2. Let them do the interaction and then ask about the experience
3. Do you think the kiosk has served its purpose?
4. Do you think you would use this again?
5. How likely are you to use it again?
very likely likely unlikely very unlikely
6. How do you rate your experience of using this kiosk?
very good good bad very bad

9. Target for Development
Listed features and areas of the
existing system we will target for
development
• Use of directional sound system
to listen to the Audio
• Language translations for Audio
• Interactive Audio features for
Navigation

10. Concepts for possible new accessibility
enhancement and development

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dL18JdduuhA