In-situ study of blind individuals listening to audio-visual contents

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 59-66

  Chapdelaine, Claude ^a  

^a Cent de Recherche Informatique de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Audio description; Blind and visual impairment; Multimedia

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; AUDIO DESCRIPTION; AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT; BLIND INDIVIDUALS; IN-SITU STUDY; LEGALLY BLIND; MULTIMEDIA; ON THE FLIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOUND TRACKS; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; VIDEO PLAYERS; VISUAL DISABILITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL INFORMATION;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 78650619102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878803.1878816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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