Advanced auditory menus: Design and evaluation of auditory scroll bars

ASSETS'08: The 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 105-112

  Yalla, Pavani ^a   Walker, Bruce N ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory menus; Auditory scrollbar; Non speech sounds; Universal design

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY FEEDBACKS; AUDITORY MENUS; AUDITORY SCROLLBAR; DESIGN GUIDELINES; MENU NAVIGATIONS; NEW CONCEPTS; NON-SPEECH SOUNDS; UNIVERSAL DESIGN; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

DESIGN;

EID: 62949184083     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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