Instant tactile-audio map: Enabling access to digital maps for people with visual impairment

ASSETS'09 - Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-50

  Wang, Zheshen ^a   Li, Baoxin ^a   Hedgpeth, Terri ^b   Haven, Teresa ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Multi modal system; Tactile map; Visual impairment

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; AUDIO REPRESENTATION; DIGITAL MAP; GRAPHICAL INFORMATION; INPUT IMAGE; LOCAL NAVIGATION; MAP IMAGE; MULTIMODAL SYSTEM; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REAL-TIME ACCESS; SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS; TOUCHPAD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

NAVIGATION;

NAVIGATION CHARTS;

EID: 72249120179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1639642.1639652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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