This line focuses on the development and implementation of advanced technological solutions to overcome the communication barriers and access to information faced by people with disabilities, especially in educational environments.
Accessibility in technologies for citizens of the public sector currently entails accessibility barriers for people with disabilities. The Public Administration (AAPP) despite having a history of actions in accessibility with its consequent progress, currently does not mostly comply with the accessibility regulations and does not respond to the needs of all citizens with disabilities.
Our research lines reflect the journey from our beginnings, showcasing how the foundations laid in areas such as natural language processing, biomedicine, web development, and accessibility have evolved into the current cutting-edge directions.
This journey demonstrates not only our adaptability and growth but also underpins our present investigations. These research lines, which continue to be relevant, are as follows:
Public administrations are rapidly advancing towards the provision of basic and extended services for the citizen through the Web (EU eGovernment Report 2014). In addition to the decrement of costs, this effort will support all peoples civil right to have access to all public services (including people with disabilities and elderly people). For this reason the EU started diverse initiatives to Meeting new societal needs by using emerging technologies in the public sector in order to foster efficient, open citizen-centric public services.