Tactile web browsing for blind people

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-69

  Rotard, Martin ^a   Taras, Christiane ^a   Ertl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Haptics; Tactile graphics; Web browsers

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HTML; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

TACTILE GRAPHICS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 39049149482     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-007-0170-3     Document Type: Article

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