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ACE
2004
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13 years 6 months ago
A Computing Education Vision for the Sight Impaired
Vision is the main sensory modality employed in learning. Teaching materials in the areas of information technology and computer engineering are highly visual in nature and vision...
Iain Murray, Helen Armstrong
ASSETS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A Cisco education tool accessible to the vision impaired
This paper describes iNetSim, a universally accessible network simulator, created to allow vision-impaired and sighted users to complete Cisco Certified Network Associate level tw...
J. Hope, Brian R. von Konsky, I. Murray, L. C. Che...
ASSETS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Instant tactile-audio map: enabling access to digital maps for people with visual impairment
In this paper, we propose an automatic approach, complete with a prototype system, for supporting instant access to maps for local navigation by people with visual impairment. The...
Zheshen Wang, Baoxin Li, Terri Hedgpeth, Teresa Ha...
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Speed sonic across the span: building a platform audio game
We describe the design process and initial user study of an audio game created for the visually impaired. Until the advent of 3D graphics games, platform games where the player ju...
Michael A. Oren
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
BrlAPI: Simple, Portable, Concurrent, Application-level Control of Braille Terminals
Screen readers can drive braille devices for allowing visually impaired users to access computer environments, by providing them the same information as sighted users. But in some...
Samuel Thibault, Sébastien Hinderer