Using hierarchies to support non-visual access to relational diagrams

People and Computers XXI HCI.But Not as We Know It - Proceedings of HCI 2007: The 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Metatla, Oussama ^a   Bryan Kinns, Nick ^a   Stockman, Tony ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Auditory display; Diagrams; Hierarchical navigation; Learning; Verbosity

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; AUDITORY DISPLAY; DIAGRAMS; HIERARCHICAL NAVIGATIONS; LEARNING; VERBOSITY;

EID: 84860527227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2007.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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