Instant Tactile-Audio Map: Enabling Access to Digital Maps for People with Visual Impairment
Zheshen Wang, Baoxin Li, Terri Hedgpeth, Teresa Haven · 2009 · Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)
This paper presents an automated system for converting standard digital map images into interactive tactile-audio maps that people who are blind can explore independently. The core problem addressed is that while online map services like Google Maps provide rich geographical…
tactile maps · visual impairment · multimodal interaction · audio feedback · navigation