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  • An empirical investigation of the situationally-induced impairments experienced by blind mobile device users

    Ali Abdolrahmani, Ravi Kuber, Amy Hurst · 2016 · Proceedings of the 13th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper investigates the situationally-induced impairments and disabilities (SIIDs) experienced by blind people when using mobile devices in real-world contexts. While prior SIID research has focused on sighted users encountering temporary impediments (like walking while…

    situational impairment · mobile accessibility · visual impairment · blindness · screen readers

  • Blind Photographers and VizSnap: A Long-Term Study

    Dustin Adams, Sri Kurniawan, Cynthia Herrera, Veronica Kang, Natalie Friedman · 2016 · Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

    This paper reports on a two-month longitudinal study with 13 blind participants (ages 18-65, nine totally blind and two with some light perception, seven adventitiously and six congenitally blind) using VizSnap, a free iPhone app designed to help blind people organize and browse…

    blindness · photography · mobile accessibility · social media · iPhone

  • Supporting Orientation of People with Visual Impairment: Analysis of Large Scale Usage Data

    Hernisa Kacorri, Sergio Mascetti, Andrea Gerino, Dragan Ahmetovic, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa · 2016 · Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

    This paper analyzes large-scale remote usage data from iMove, an iOS GPS-based orientation app for people with visual impairments, to understand how users interact with assistive navigation technology in real-world conditions. Traditional assistive technology user studies are…

    visual impairment · blindness · navigation · orientation and mobility · mobile accessibility

  • A Platform Agnostic Remote Desktop System for Screen Reading

    Syed Masum Billah, Vikas Ashok, Donald E. Porter, IV Ramakrishnan · 2016 · ASSETS '16: Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

    Sinter addresses a fundamental barrier to remote desktop accessibility: traditional remote desktop technology scrapes pixels from the remote screen and redraws them as bitmaps on the client, losing all semantic information that screen readers require—text content, UI element…

    screen reader · remote desktop · cross-platform accessibility · UI virtualization · blind accessibility

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