Title :
From Tapping to Touching: Making Touch Screens Accessible to Blind Users
Author :
Guerreiro, Tiago ; Lagoa, P. ; Nicolau, Hugo ; Gonalves, D. ; Jorge, Joaquim A.
Author_Institution :
Tech. Univ. of Lisboa, Lisbon
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
gesture recognition; handicapped aids; mobile handsets; touch sensitive screens; NavTouch navigational method; blind users; gesture-based text-entry method; touch-screen equipped mobile phones; vision-impaired users; Application software; Educational institutions; Feedback; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Navigation; Performance evaluation; Pressing; Productivity; Testing;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MMUL.2008.88
