From Tapping to Touching: Making Touch Screens Accessible to Blind Users

Authors:
Tiago Guerreiro;Paulo Lagoá;Hugo Nicolau;Daniel Gonçalves;Joaquim A. Jorge
Affiliations:
Technical University of Lisboa;Technical University of Lisboa;Technical University of Lisboa;Technical University of Lisboa;Technical University of Lisboa
Venue:
IEEE MultiMedia
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The NavTouch navigational method enables blind users to input text in a touch-screen device by performing directional gestures to navigate a vowel-indexed alphabet.