The design of auditory user interfaces for blind users

Donker, Hilko; Klante, Palle; Gorny, Peter

doi:10.1145/572021.572038

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“…Multimodal technologies can also assist in the mental mapping process, allowing the user to develop greater awareness of objects contained within the environment [17]. While previous studies have aimed to improve access to the web through the use of non-visual browsing techniques [7,10,27,37], the approach proposed here aims to enhance current methods of browsing through the use of multimodal technologies to convey spatial information to the user. Ongoing research aims to bridge the gap between assistive screen reading technologies and mainstream visual Internet browsers by providing an alternative approach to web exploration for visually impaired users.…”

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An empirical investigation into the difficulties experienced by visually impaired Internet users

Murphy

Kuber

McAllister

et al. 2007

Univ Access Inf Soc

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In this paper, an empirical based study is described which has been conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the visually impaired community when accessing the Web. The study, involving 30 blind and partially sighted computer users, has identified navigation strategies, perceptions of page layout and graphics using assistive devices such as screen readers. Analysis of the data has revealed that current assistive technologies impose navigational constraints and provide limited information on web page layout. Conveying additional spatial information could enhance the exploration process for visually impaired Internet users. It could also assist the process of collaboration between blind and sighted users when performing web-based tasks. The findings from the survey have informed the development of a non-visual interface, which uses the benefits of multimodal technologies to present spatial and navigational cues to the user.

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Section: Selected Approachmentioning

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An empirical investigation into the difficulties experienced by visually impaired Internet users

Murphy

Kuber

McAllister

et al. 2007

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…AUIs have traditionally been used for accessibility by the visually impaired in desktop applications with the main objective of transforming a graphical representation to an auditory one (edwards 1989;Gaver 1989;Mynatt 1994;Donker, Klante, and Gorny 2002;Jagdish et al 2008;Shinohara and Tenenberg 2009). Auditory non-speech audio has also been used to provide additional information to users about navigating a GUI (Kramer 1993;Absar and Guastavino 2008).…”

Section: Auditory User Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

MobiLAudio – a multimodal content delivery platform for geo-services

Gardiner¹,

Cullen²,

Carswell³

2016

Journal of Location Based Services

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“…Low vision learners and other types of VI depend 100% on audio to explain everything that appear on screen [34], [35] [36], [37]. Without auditory explanation, the visual aspect means nothing to them.…”

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Conceptual Design Model of Assistive Courseware for Low Vision (AC4LV) Learners

Aziz

Mutalib

Sarif

2015

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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-This paper describes an ongoing study related to the design of conceptual design model which specific to learning content application for low vision learners. Reviews from literatures indicate that content application such as courseware which is specifically designed to cater the needs of low vision learners in learning is highly scarce. It was found that most of the existing content applications including courseware focus to the needs of normal student, in which most of this courseware mean too little to the low vision learners in terms of information accessibility, navigation ability, and pleasure aspects. In addition, the use of Assistive Technology (AT) such as magnifying glass was also problematic for them. Thus, this study aims at creating an alternative content application particularly courseware for low vision learners. It is called as Assistive Courseware for Low Vision (AC4LV). Prior to develop an AC4LV a specific design model has to be proposed as guidance for the developer to refer to. So, this paper proposes a Conceptual Design Model of AC4LV by utilizing three phases of activities. Future works is to validate the proposed model through expert review and prototyping method.

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The design of auditory user interfaces for blind users

Cited by 20 publications

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An empirical investigation into the difficulties experienced by visually impaired Internet users

An empirical investigation into the difficulties experienced by visually impaired Internet users

MobiLAudio – a multimodal content delivery platform for geo-services

Conceptual Design Model of Assistive Courseware for Low Vision (AC4LV) Learners

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