Providing an Accessible Track Changes Feature for Persons Who Are Blind

Schoeberlein, John G.; Wang, Yuanqiong

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39194-1_46

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“…The research was initiated with a baseline usability study [37], conducted to identify the accessibility and usability-related issues that stem from collaborative writing features when they are used by visually impaired people while using Microsoft Word. The author proposed a Word add-in prototype [8] that utilized Windows message boxes to present the revisions and comments of the document. It is compatible with the Job Access with Speech (JAWS) screen reader and a standard keyboard.…”

Section: Technologies and Applications For The Visually Impaired To Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Intelligent and Interactive Interface to Support Symmetrical Collaborative Educational Writing among Visually Impaired and Sighted Users

2019

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It is often uncomfortable for disabled individuals, especially those with vision impairment, to conduct educational activities in collaboration with people that have perfect vision. This can be because of the former’s lack of confidence, vision capability, and acceptance. Information and communications technology (ICT) has played a vital role in giving support to people with visual impairments so that they can overcome their issues. This study proposes innovative solutions that address the challenges faced by partially or completely visually impaired people. It provides an interactive and intelligent interface, which they may use to perform educational activities, such as editing, writing, or reviewing documents, in collaboration with people without visual impairments. The system provides high-quality awareness features by sending them instant voice notifications about the actions and events occurring in the shared environment. A speech-recognition engine has been integrated into the system to allow users to interact with the application through voice commands. The system is evaluated through experiments, where people with visual impairment and people without visual impairment were engaged in collaborative writing. The obtained results are encouraging. The users showed curiosity in the system and were able to focus on the productive task instead of their disability.

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Section: Technologies and Applications For The Visually Impaired To Hmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, individuals with visual impairments struggle when they interact with such applications [7], as they are not particularly designed for them. Add-ons [8] and interface wrappers [9] have been developed to make applications accessible to them, however, they are still not fully utilizable.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%