PLUMB: An interface for users who are blind to display, create, and modify graphs

Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 263-264

  Calder, Matt ^a   Cohen, Robert F ^a   Lanzoni, Jessica ^a   Xu, Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Audio; Graph

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUES; BLIND USERS;

ACCESS CONTROL; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; GRAPHIC METHODS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 34247390574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168987.1169046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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