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    Learning features and accessibility limitations of video conferencing applications
    (Springer Verlag, 2023-11-01) Alajarmeh, Nancy; Al-Jarrah, Ahmad; Alnfiai, Mrim; Doush, Iyad Abu
    The COVID-19 pandemic increases the reliance on video conferencing applications for learning. Accessible video conferencing applications with good learning features can help people with visual impairment when they participate in online classes. This paper investigates the accessibility limitations and the available learning features of the top two current video conferencing applications, namely Zoom and MS Teams. A task-based expert review and a blind user evaluation are conducted using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. In addition, the study identifies the application with the better learning features based on Universal Design for Learning guidelines. A set of recommendations are outlined for developing better inclusive video conferencing applications for people with visual impairment. The presented ideas can be applied to enhance the learning experience of people with visual impairment.
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    Understanding Mobile Payments through the Lens of Innovation Resistance and Planned Behavior Theories
    (Growing Science, 2023-10-26) Abu Al-Maati, Shareef; Eljamal, Enas; Muhammad, Nooh; Rabaa'i, Ahmad
    Despite the numerous advantages that different mobile payments can provide, their acceptance, and adoption rates are still relatively low. This study aims at investigating mobile payments and demonstrates how drivers and barriers that influence behavioral intentions to use mobile payments interact and support one another by combining the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the innovation resistance theory (IRT). A self-administered online survey was employed to gather data from 341 users of mobile payments in the State of Kuwait. To test the proposed model and its hypotheses, responses were analyzed using a partial least square structural equation modeling approach (PLS-SEM). The results show that usage, value, risk, and tradition resistance-related factors are significant barriers towards behavioral intentions to use mobile payments, while the image barrier is insignificant. The findings also affirmed that perceived behavioral control and attitudes motivate and influence consumers’ behavioral intentions; however, the subjective norm was non-significant. The study’s findings have significant implications for scholars, mobile payments’ service providers, marketers, policymakers, and banks.
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    From Sacred to the Possibility of Re-visioning: Arabic Simplification Proposals as Educational Typefaces in Learning Books.
    (2023-10-26) Dhawi, Fahad Ali
    There are special typefaces used for persons with dyslexia, created to learn Katakana, or help children learn to read and write in English. In the process of preliminary research for this paper, no inclusive academic studies were found that have been conducted on the subject of ‘educational typefaces’ for visual Arabic learning or pre-made Arabic typefaces that could meet most of the learning requirements for the adult beginner level. It is acknowledged that while ‘regular’ typefaces cannot fully simplify the learning content or provide appealing learning material with a variety of engaging activities and creative and challenging exercises, they can still help make learning significantly easier in certain parts of the learning unit. Therefore, there is a need for typefaces that can communicate educationally and culturally to a specific audience – basic Arabic learners in the beginner level.
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    El arabismo huérfano de los revolucionarios latinoamericanos
    (2023-10-17) Vélez, Federico
    Gaza, Israel, PLO, Hamas, Colombia, Gustavo Petro, Fidel Castro, Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Baath Party