Automating tactile graphics translation

ASSETS 2005 - The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 150-157

  Ladner, Richard E ^a   Ivory, Melody Y ^a   Rao, Rajesh ^a   Burgstahler, Sheryl ^a   Comden, Dan ^a   Hahn, Sangyun ^a   Renzelmann, Matthew ^a   Krisnandi, Satria ^a   Ramasamy, Mahalakshmi ^a   Slabosky, Beverly ^a   Martin, Andrew ^a   Lacenski, Amelia ^a   Olsen, Stuart ^a   Groce, Dmitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Braille; Disability; Image processing; Machine learning; Tactile graphics; User study

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ACCESSIBILITY; BRAILLE; DISABILITY; TACTILE GRAPHICS; USER STUDY;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 32344446449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1090785.1090814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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