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  • Making Arabic PDF books accessible using gamification

    Hend AlRouqi, Hend S. Al-Khalifa · 2014 · Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper addresses the inaccessibility of Arabic PDF books for people with visual impairments, blindness, and dyslexia. Most online Arabic books are scanned images of printed originals, making them unreadable by screen readers and text-to-speech software. Arabic OCR technology…

    document accessibility · gamification · crowdsourcing · OCR · Arabic accessibility

  • New Tools for Automating Tactile Geographic Map Translation

    Nizar Bouhlel, Anis Rojbi · 2014 · Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

    This demo paper presents a Matlab-based software tool that semi-automates the conversion of visual geographic maps into tactile versions suitable for blind students. Tactile graphics are the most effective modality for blind people to comprehend graphical images, but converting…

    tactile graphics · blindness · braille · image processing · OCR

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