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ICPR
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Support System for Visually Impaired Persons to Understand Three-dimensional Visual Information Using Acoustic Interface
Visual information processing technology is very important in the implementation for sensory substitution of visually impaired persons as well as applications to factory automatio...
Yoshihiro Kawai, Fumiaki Tomita
ICWE
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Screen Readers Cannot See: Ontology Based Semantic Annotation for Visually Impaired Web Travellers
ct Travelling upon the Web is difficult for visually impaired users since the Web pages are designed for visual interaction [6]. Visually impaired users usually use screen readers...
Yeliz Yesilada, Simon Harper, Carole A. Goble, Rob...
ICCHP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Exploring Scalable Vector Graphics for Visually Impaired Users
Graphical information is very important in common information publishing. For visually impaired users this information is usually not accessible. Scalable Vector Graphics, a recomm...
Martin Rotard, Kerstin Otte, Thomas Ertl
ICCHP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
proXimity: Ad-Hoc Networks for Enhanced Mobility
David tries not to use unfamiliar trains and buses, he doesn’t travel to places he doesn’t know, and he doesn’t travel in unusual environments without a companion. David is v...
Simon Harper, Stephen Pettitt, Carole A. Goble
ASSETS
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
The audio abacus: representing numerical values with nonspeech sound for the visually impaired
Point estimation is a relatively unexplored facet of sonification. We present a new computer application, the Audio Abacus, designed to transform numbers into tones following the ...
Bruce N. Walker, Jeff Lindsay, Justin Godfrey
IEAAIE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Semi-autonomous Wheelchair with HelpStar
This paper describes a semi-autonomous wheelchair enabled with “HelpStar” that provides a user who is visually impaired with mobility independence. Our “HelpStar” enabled s...
Hajime Uchiyama, Leonidas Deligiannidis, Walter D....
EUC
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
iCane - A Partner for the Visually Impaired
Any modern society should be concerned over the well-being of the visually impaired citizen. It is the responsibility of the society to lessen the inconvenience and anxiety experie...
Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Chien-Ju Ho, David Chawei Hsu,...
SIGDOC
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Taming the inaccessible web
Visually impaired users are hindered in their efforts to access the largest repository of electronic information in the world, namely the World Wide Web (Web). A visually impaired...
Simon Harper, Sean Bechhofer, Darren Lunn
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Accessibility first!: a new approach to web design
This paper proposes an accessibility first pedogogy for web design, in which the course is organized around the requirement of implementing web pages accessible to visually impai...
Brian J. Rosmaita
NORDICHI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
SoundBar: exploiting multiple views in multimodal graph browsing
In this paper we discuss why access to mathematical graphs is problematic for visually impaired people. By a review of graph understanding theory and interviews with visually impa...
David K. McGookin, Stephen A. Brewster