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  • WebAnywhere: Experiences with a New Delivery Model for Access Technology

    Jeffrey P. Bigham, Wendy Chisholm, Richard E. Ladner · 2010 · Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This follow-up paper describes the evolution of WebAnywhere two years after its initial release, documenting how it expanded from a web-based screen reader for blind users into a broader platform for delivering access technology. Released publicly in June 2008, WebAnywhere…

    screen readers · blindness · low vision · web-based assistive technology · text-to-speech

  • Note-Taker 2.0: The Next Step Toward Enabling Students who are Legally Blind to Take Notes in Class

    David S. Hayden, Liqing Zhou, Michael J. Astrauskas, John A. Black · 2010 · Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

    This paper describes the iterative design and usability testing of the Note-Taker, a portable assistive device that enables students who are legally blind to take notes during classroom lectures. The core problem is that note-taking requires rapidly switching between a far-sight…

    low vision · legal blindness · note-taking · STEM accessibility · education

  • LocalEyes: Accessible GPS and Points of Interest

    Jason Behmer, Stillman Knox · 2010 · Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

    This student research paper presents LocalEyes, an open-source Android application that provides accessible GPS and points-of-interest information for blind and low-vision users. The authors identify that existing accessible GPS devices like the Trekker Talking GPS cost between…

    visual impairment · GPS navigation · mobile accessibility · points of interest · wayfinding

  • Helping Older Adults Locate 'Lost' Cursors Using FieldMouse

    Nic Hollinworth · 2010 · Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

    This short paper describes FieldMouse, a modified standard optical mouse augmented with a touch sensor (Quantum QT110) embedded in its top surface to detect when a user grasps the mouse after releasing it. The motivation addresses a common problem among older adult computer…

    aging · mouse cursor · pointing devices · input devices · assistive technology

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