Accessibility of Android-based mobile devices: A prototype to investigate interaction with blind users

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7383 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 607-614

  Chiti, Sarah ^a   Leporini, Barbara ^b  

^a Intecs   (Italy)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

blind users; mobile accessibility; touch screen

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND USERS; MOBILE ACCESSIBILITY; MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEMS; PROTOTYPE DESIGNS; TOUCH-SCREEN INTERACTION;

HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; MOBILE DEVICES; ROBOTS; SMARTPHONES;

TOUCH SCREENS;

EID: 84864794992     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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