Visual challenges in the everyday lives of blind people

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2117-2126

  Brady, Erin ^a   Morris, Meredith Ringel ^b   Zhong, Yu ^a   White, Samuel ^a   Bigham, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Blind users; Crowdsourcing; Mobile; Q A

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BLIND PEOPLE; BLIND USERS; CROWDSOURCING; LARGE-SCALE STUDIES; MOBILE; NEW PROJECTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PHOTOGRAPHY;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84877940861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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