Investigating touchscreen accessibility for people with visual impairments

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 358, Issue , 2008, Pages 298-307

  McGookin, David ^a   Brewster, Stephen ^a   Jiang, Wei Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blind; Mobile devices; Non speech sound; Speech; Touchscreen; Universal design; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BLIND; NON-SPEECH SOUND; TOUCHSCREEN; UNIVERSAL DESIGN; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

DESIGN; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MOBILE DEVICES; ONLINE SEARCHING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70049117790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463160.1463193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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