Slide rule: Making mobile touch screens accessible to blind people using multi-touch interaction techniques

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 73-80

  Kane, Shaun K ^a   Bigham, Jeffrey P ^a   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blindness; Mobile devices; Multi touch interaction techniques; Speech output; Touch screens

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTECTION; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

ACCESSIBILITY; BLINDNESS; MULTI-TOUCH INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OUTPUT; TOUCH SCREENS;

MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 62949208828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414487     Document Type: Conference Paper

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