Determining the accessibility of mobile screen readers for blind users

Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 182-189

  Kuber, Ravi ^a   Hastings, Amanda ^a   Tretter, Matthew ^a   Fitzpatrick, Dónal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Accommodating people with disabilities; Blind; Mobile HCI

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BLIND; BLIND USERS; DATA GATHERING; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE HCI; MOBILE INTERFACE; MOBILE SCREENS; MULTIPLE STREAMS; PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84864610816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2316/P.2012.772-003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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