A tactile windowing system for blind users

ASSETS'10 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 91-98

  Prescher, Denise ^a   Weber, Gerhard ^a   Spindler, Martin ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blind user; Braille; Gesture interaction; Planar tactile display; Screen reader; Tactile graphics

Indexed keywords

BLIND USERS; BRAILLE; GESTURE INTERACTION; PLANAR TACTILE DISPLAYS; SCREEN READERS; TACTILE GRAPHICS;

DISPLAY DEVICES; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS);

HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 78650615361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878803.1878821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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