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UIST
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Mixture model based label association techniques for web accessibility
An important aspect of making the Web accessible to blind users is ensuring that all important web page elements such as links, clickable buttons, and form fields have explicitly ...
Muhammad Asiful Islam, Yevgen Borodin, I. V. Ramak...
UAIS
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Evaluating a modified Google user interface via screen reader
: This paper describes the progress of a research project aimed at improving the usability of web search tools for blind users who interact via screen readers and voice synthesizer...
Barbara Leporini, Patrizia Andronico, Marina Buzzi...
CHI
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Supporting orientation for blind people using museum guides
Novel environments exploiting recent technology can enhance several tasks in applications such as mobile guides. However, in the many museum mobile guides that have been proposed,...
Giuseppe Ghiani, Barbara Leporini, Fabio Patern&og...
CVHI
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Haptic and Aural Graphs Exploration for Visually Impaired Users
: Several web sites and e-learning platforms require the access to graphs that carry significant meanings. Understanding and perceiving the graph of a mathematical function is impo...
Thimoty Barbieri, Lorenzo Mosca, Licia Sbattella
ASSETS
2000
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A study of blind drawing practice: creating graphical information without the visual channel
Existing drawing tools for blind users give inadequate contextual feedback on the state of the drawing, leaving blind users unable to comprehend and successfully produce graphical...
Hesham M. Kamel, James A. Landay
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Assembling the senses: towards the design of cooperative interfaces for visually impaired users
The needs of blind and visually impaired users are seriously under-investigated in CSCW. We review work on assistive interfaces especially concerning how collaboration between sig...
Fredrik Winberg, John Bowers
ASSETS
2004
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Accessibility designer: visualizing usability for the blind
These days, accessibility-related regulations and guidelines have been accelerating the improvement of Web accessibility. One of the accelerating factors is the development and de...
Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, Kentarou Fukuda, ...
IUI
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Trailblazer: enabling blind users to blaze trails through the web
For blind web users, completing tasks on the web can be frustrating. Each step can require a time-consuming linear search of the current web page to find the needed interactive e...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Tessa A. Lau, Jeffrey Nichols
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Topic segmentation of message hierarchies for indexing and navigation support
Message hierarchies in web discussion boards grow with new postings. Threads of messages evolve as new postings focus within or diverge from the original themes of the threads. Th...
Jong Wook Kim, K. Selçuk Candan, Mehmet Emi...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Webanywhere: enabling a screen reading interface for the web on any computer
People often use computers other than their own to access web content, but blind users are restricted to using computers equipped with expensive, special-purpose screen reading pr...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig Prince, Richard E. Ladner