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From Tapping to Touching: Making Touch Screens Accessible to Blind Users

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Joaquim A. JorgeAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE MultiMedia, Volume 15, Issue 4

Pages 48 - 50

https://doi.org/10.1109/MMUL.2008.88

Published: 01 October 2008 Publication History

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The NavTouch navigational method enables blind users to input text in a touch-screen device by performing directional gestures to navigate a vowel-indexed alphabet.

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Lottridge DYoon CBurton DWang CKaye J(2022)Ally: Understanding Text Messaging to Build a Better Onscreen Keyboard for Blind PeopleACM Transactions on Accessible Computing10.1145/353370715:4(1-22)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2022
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From Tapping to Touching: Making Touch Screens Accessible to Blind Users
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

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IEEE MultiMedia Volume 15, Issue 4

October 2008

89 pages

ISSN:1070-986X

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