<< Objectives >>The main objective of the INTUX project is to introduce training on accessible and inclusive user testing with people with disabilities in UX design and related higher education courses The project also aims to empower people with disabilities to be aware of their rights and take a more active role in usability testing and be able to collaborate with public and private sector organisations on the basis of an equal partnership in user testing.<< Implementation >>Establish a learning framework for a training course for UX design students in higher education on user testing with people with disabilities. Create and test a training course on inclusive and accessible user testing with people with disabilities.Generate user scenarios to apply theoretical knowledge on user testing in a practical context, directly involving and empowering people with disabilities. Stimulate the uptake of the training in higher education curricula through recommendations.<< Results >>Learning framework for the development of a training course for UX design students on inclusive and accessible user testing with people with disabilities; Training course on inclusive and accessible testing with people with disabilities; 3 user scenarios for user testing with people with disabilities; Recommendations for the inclusion of the training course on user testing into UX design and related programmes in other European universities.

People with ASD are limited in the range of leisure, cultural and sporting activities available to them. This limitation is mainly caused by the lack of adaptations and training on ASD of the institutions, entities and professionals of this field. The lack of strategies and resources to attend to persons in this type of activities by regulatory entities means that the offer is limited in most cases to specific disability entities. For this reason, the capacity of choice as regards the type of activity, cost, location, timetable and periodicity is very limited, which sometimes leads to not carrying out some of these activities. For this reason, the specific disability entities permanently seek to expand the specialized resources that can offer quality care to people with ASD in all these areas. Due to the importance that this need has for the quality of life of people with ASD and their families, the project Olas de Inclusion tries to generate an exchange of good practices among European entities that promotes the social inclusion of people with ASD in the performance of cultural, leisure and sports activities. The aim is to disseminate and share the good practices generated and to carry out training actions through the construction of a wider transnational network of entities, professionals, volunteers and families sensitized and trained to assist people with ASD under equal conditions in the field of leisure, culture and sport. Through this training in strategies that favour inclusion and that allow an access of people with ASD in equal conditions in cultural, sport and leisure activities, it will increase the number of people with ASD that participate in inclusion in activities of this type in conventional entities and/or will improve their level of inclusion in them. This will increase the awareness of the society towards people with ASD in the environments of all these activities. People with ASD and their families, volunteers, institutions, companies and professionals in the field of leisure time and society in general, will be beneficiaries of the results of the project. Three transnational seminars will be carried out in which all kind of profiles could participate, as considered by the partner entities: high positions of the entity, professionals of the leisure sector, youth workers, people with ASD and volunteers from the different countries so that they can give their point of view from their role in the process. A guide of good practices would be elaborated about strategies that facilitate the inclusion of people with ASD in leisure, culture and sport contexts. This guide will be elaborated with the synthesis of the main good practices shared between the benchmarking between the partner entities and the network of local entities. A training itinerary will also be elaborated with different modules about different aspects of ASD, inclusion, quality of life and strategies that favour the inclusion process in the above mentioned areas. Access to this training will be open both to the materials (produced in five different languages) and to all the online training that will be carried out. Each partner entity of the project will generate in its country a network of entities in the field of leisure, culture and sport with interest on the attention and inclusion of people with ASD, which will be trained with the training itinerary carried out and will be advised in the process of adaptations. The trainings will be specific according to the target group, differentiating trainings for families, as an important part of the inclusive process, for volunteers who can support the normative entities in this process and for entities and professionals of the leisure sector. The impact of our project will be a greater social awareness of the importance of the inclusion of people with ASD in conventional activities. By means of the training actions and the advice we intend, more normative entities will adapt their activities so that people with ASD can participate in them in equal conditions. This would increase the number of people with ASD participating in inclusion activities and the offer of leisure time options in which people with ASD can participate with guarantees of success. This project would be the germ to continue promoting and expanding this network of entities and free time resources to which people with ASD can have access to a wide range of free time options as any other person.

In general, persons with autism have difficulties in terms of communication, interpersonal and behavioral relationships, and they can often also have cognitive disabilities. At school, these difficulties, as well as the difficulties of understanding, concentration and motor skills, create disadvantages for people with autism. Besides that, in most of the cases, the regular education is still not adequate to the specific needs of these persons.The lack of access to technological resources, digital materials and skills, as well as the scarce or even non-existent support for students with autism / neurodiversity in general, are problems that intensified during the confinement period. In that way, COVID-19 brought to the institutions' agenda the importance of the use of ICT for the field of inclusive education, as the inclusion of ICT in the development of the curriculum expands the opportunities for the learning process of these students (Autismo Sevilla, 2020).According to the recent diagnosis made by the different partners, as well as by a joint literature review, it was possible to verify that the social problem consists in the lack of preparation of the majority of teachers in the use of ICT tools in an autonomous and effective way (Inovar Autismo, 2020).As a way to mitigate this problem, the partners designed the project “Inclusive Digital Tool” (DiGiTool) which aims to train teachers (regular and special education), to work with autistic students, using ICT tools. Through this training, DiGiTool will also allow the training of students with autism to use these tools. For that, a new inclusive ICT approach in the scope of autism will designed and tested in Portugal, Spain and Italy. This new approach is essential to promote the communication, socialization and learning of these students, enhancing their school success. The project will train up to 90 teachers (up to 30 for each implementing country), trying to cover as many primary and secondary schools as possible in each country. After the end of the project, trained teachers in each school (focal points) will be encouraged by the implementing associations to replicate training sessions with their colleagues (at their school and others). The training will focus on inclusive ICTs, which are important for the teachers in order to learn and produce their own content as well as implement new teaching and assessment methodologies.The DiGiTool project will also have as a final product an inclusive ICT Multi-resource KIT, an user manual and an integrated app, materials that will be available for free download. These materials can be translated into several languages and disseminated at European level at the end of the project.The project consortium includes Inovar Autismo (coordinating and implementing entity), Diversamente ODV and Autismo Sevilla (implementing entities), CRID-IPLeiria and InterMediaKT (experts in the area of inclusive ICT), ISCTE-IUL (assessment) and Autism-Europe (dissemination).