Toward accessible human-computer interaction
Advances in human-computer interaction (vol. 5)
Assembling the senses: towards the design of cooperative interfaces for visually impaired users
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Teaching graphs to visually impaired students using an active auditory interface
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
JFLAP: An Interactive Formal Languages and Automata Package
JFLAP: An Interactive Formal Languages and Automata Package
ProofChecker: an accessible environment for automata theory correctness proofs
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Automated tactile graphics translation: in the field
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Helping him see: guiding a visually impaired student through the computer science curriculum
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
FreeTTS: a performance case study
FreeTTS: a performance case study
GSK: universally accessible graph sketching
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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In this paper we describe how we tried to make the well-known JFLAP Turing machine simulator accessible to blind students taking a theoretical computer science course. Software accessibility is an important topic for both legal and ethical reasons: in our case, however, we also wanted to make the accessible software usable by blind students in cooperation with the other students, in order to encourage the integration of the blind students within the rest of the class. For this reason, the accessible version of the JFLAP Turing machine simulator that we developed is as much similar as possible to and fully compatible with the original one. In the paper, we also report some very satisfactory preliminary validation results that indicate how the new software can really make Turing machines accessible to blind students.