Access overlays: Improving non-visual access to large touch screens for blind users

UIST'11 - Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 273-282

  Kane, Shaun K ^a,d   Morris, Meredith Ringel ^b   Perkins, Annuska Z ^b   Wigdor, Daniel ^c   Ladner, Richard E ^d   Wobbrock, Jacob O ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Desigan; Experimentation; Human factors

Indexed keywords

BLIND USERS; BOARD GAMES; DESIGAN; EDGE PROJECTION; EXPERIMENTATION; INTERACTIVE TABLETOP; MINIMAL SUPPORTS; SCREEN READERS; SOFTWARE-BASED; SPATIAL DATA; TOUCH SCREEN; TOUCH SCREEN INTERFACE; USER STUDY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 80755169507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2047196.2047232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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