Accessibility and IoT

The current IoT (Internet of Things) scenario presents a number of different systems that do not talk to each other, and that ignore the most basic principle of Accessibility: making experiences accessible and inclusive to any type of user, regardless of what their point of entry into this ecosystem is.

With the Internet of Things, the term accessibility takes on a whole new meaning. In addition to ensuring that experiences are accessible to any user profile, there is also the basic concern of creating consistency in the way that operations are performed.

Think of browsers, and the standardizations dictated by the W3C that today we find obvious. None of this is a reality with respect to how connected objects interact ...

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