Improving the Academic Inclusion of a Student with Special Needs at University Bordeaux

John Kelway (1) , Anke Brock (2, 3, 4, 5) , Pascal Guitton (1, 4) , Aurélie Millet (1) , Yasushi Nakata (1)

1 UB - Université de Bordeaux
2 ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
3 LII - ENAC - Equipe Informatique Interactive
4 Potioc - Popular interaction with 3d content
5 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique

Recently, there has been a sharp increase in the number of students with disabilities (SWDs) enrolled in universities. Unfortunately SWDs still struggle to attain the same level of education as non-disabled students. This paper presents a collaborative approach between members of the student support service, researchers and a special needs student in order to improve his access to and participation in university education. We performed a person-technology match and analyzed different existing technologies. Then, we designed and printed a keyguard, keyboard stand and mobile armrest which allowed him to almost double his text entry speed on a computer. We hope that our experience will inspire other universities to better address the needs of students with disabilities.

Mots clés: 3D-printing; DIY; text entry; Accessibility; students with disabilities

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

John Kelway, Anke Brock, Pascal Guitton, Aurélie Millet, Yasushi Nakata. Improving the Academic Inclusion of a Student with Special Needs at University Bordeaux. 20th ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS'18), Oct 2018, Galway, Ireland. pp.52-56, ⟨10.1145/3234695.3241482⟩. ⟨hal-01848103⟩