A tactile web browser for the visually disabled

HT 2005 - 16th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 15-22

  Rotard, Martin ^a   Knödler, Sven ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive hypertext; Multi modal interfaces; Tactile graphics; Universal access

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE HYPERTEXT; BITMAP IMAGES; DISABLED PEOPLE; GRAPHICAL INFORMATION; GRAPHICS DISPLAY; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MARKUP LANGUAGE; MULTI-MODAL INTERFACES; NEW APPROACHES; SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS; UNIVERSAL ACCESS; VOICE OUTPUT; WEB PAGE;

HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MARKUP LANGUAGES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 38349137613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083356.1083361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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