Investigating the accessibility of program selection menus of a digital TV interface

  • Authors:
  • Pradipta Biswas;Patrick Langdon

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Engineering, Univiversity of Cambridge, UK;Department of Engineering, Univiversity of Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: users and applications - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We have investigated the accessibility issues of the program selection menus of a digital television interface. Initially we have simulated interaction patterns of visually and mobility impaired users and based on the simulation we have made changes to the font size and layout of the existing interface. Finally we have evaluated the new interface through a user trial involving people with disabilities. The results show that the new interface reduced the average time to select a channel and number of wrong channel selections for most of the participants.