Improving the accessibility of ASCII graphics for the blind students: producing my own graphics

Authors:
Karin Müller;Angela Constantinescu
Affiliations:
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Study Center for the Visually Impaired Students, Karlsruhe;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Study Center for the Visually Impaired Students, Karlsruhe
Venue:
ICCHP'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computers helping people with special needs
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Graphics are pervasively used in natural sciences. Making graphics accessible to blind people is difficult because blind students have to know how the layout looks like, to understand what the layout means and to have a possibility to create a graphic by themselves. Therefore we suggest to use ASCII graphics. Our approach tries to improve the accessibility of ASCII graphics by automatically extracting and transforming them in order to be printed with a tactile embosser.