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Please feel free to let us know any research we should be looking at, as well as other comments.
This is a set of papers that describe accessibility issues for users with various cognitive or learning disabilities and mental health issues.
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We intend to add an overview about issues and cognitive or learning disabilities and mental health issues.
We intend to add text to explain these modules.
This is our second batch of issue papers / modules. Older drafts of issue papers may be out of date, incomplete, or may contain errors. We intend to add the follwoing text to each older paper. "Editors Note: This draft is out of date, there may be new research and new technologies that are relevant to this topic."
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