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Adaptive blind interaction technique for touchscreens
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Target size study for one-handed thumb use on small touchscreen devices
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VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions
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Leveraging proprioception to make mobile phones more accessible to users with visual impairments
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Realization of direct manipulation for visually impaired on touch panel interface
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Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
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Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
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Haptic target acquisition to enable spatial gestures in nonvisual displays
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013
Towards ubiquitous awareness tools for blind people
BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
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Recent advances in touch screen technology have increased the prevalence of touch screens and have prompted a wave of new touch screen-based devices. However, touch screens are still largely inaccessible to blind users, who must adopt error-prone compensatory strategies to use them or find accessible alternatives. This inaccessibility is due to interaction techniques that require the user to visually locate objects on the screen. To address this problem, we introduce Slide Rule, a set of audio-based multi-touch interaction techniques that enable blind users to access touch screen applications. We describe the design of Slide Rule, our interaction techniques, and a user study in which 10 blind people used Slide Rule and a button-based Pocket PC screen reader. Results show that Slide Rule was significantly faster than the button-based system, and was preferred by 7 of 10 users. However, users made more errors when using Slide Rule than when using the more familiar button-based system.