Designing auditory cues to enhance spoken mathematics for visually impaired users

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 75-82

  Murphy, Emma ^a   Bates, Enda ^a   Fitzpatrick, Dónal ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Design methods for user interfaces; Mathematics; Non speech sound; Spearcons; Visually impaired users

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; DESIGN METHOD; MATHEMATICS; NON-SPEECH SOUND; SPEARCONS; VISUALLY-IMPAIRED USERS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PRODUCT DESIGN;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 78650628912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878803.1878819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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