Refreshable tactile graphics applied to schoolbook illustrations for students with visual impairment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 89-96

  Petit, Grégory ^a   Dufresne, Aude ^a   Levesque, Vincent ^b   Hayward, Vincent ^b   Trudeau, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Children with special needs; Multimodal device; Pedagogy; Students with visual impairment; Tactile graphics

Indexed keywords

TEXTBOOKS;

ACCESSIBILITY; CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS; MULTIMODAL DEVICE; PEDAGOGY; TACTILE GRAPHICS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 62949245817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414471.1414489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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