Title :
User interface of a document-processing reader for the blind
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Res. Lab., IBM Japan Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
After describing the problems that blind users face in accessing conventional printed documents, we give an overview of a document-processing reader for OS/2. The discussion concerns mainly the user interface of the system, since GUIs present serious problems for blind users. Instead of icons and a mouse, the system interface is built around voice menus and a numeric keypad. A structured file is also created to allow users to read a text quickly after the scanning and character recognition is complete
Keywords :
document image processing; handicapped aids; multimedia computing; natural language interfaces; optical character recognition; speech synthesis; GUI; OS/2; blind users; character recognition; document access; document-processing reader; graphical user interface; icons; mouse; multimedia; numeric keypad; scanning; user interface; voice menu; Books; Computational modeling; Information resources; Laboratories; Libraries; Optical character recognition software; Speech; Synthesizers; Text recognition; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hiroshima
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7438-5
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1996.535016
