Investigating touchscreen accessibility for people with visual impairments Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3946543, abstract = {Touchscreen computing devices such as the iPhone are becoming more common. However this technology is largely inaccessible to people with visual impairments. We present the results of a requirements capture study that illustrates the problems with touchscreen accessibility, and the choices visually impaired people make when choosing assistive technology. We investigate ways of overcoming touchscreen accessibility problems by comparing a raised paper overlay touchscreen based MP3 player, with a touchscreen gesture based player. Twelve blindfolded participants, and one visually impaired person, were able to operate both players, though there were problems with short impact related operations in the gesture player. From our results we provide guidelines for future designers, to help them exploit the potential of touchscreen technology for visually impaired people.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Mcgookin, David and Brewster, Stephen and Jiang, Weiwei}, booktitle = {NordiCHI '08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction}, citeulike-article-id = {3946543}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1463160.1463193}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463193}, doi = {10.1145/1463160.1463193}, isbn = {978-1-59593-704-9}, keywords = {accessibility, at, impairments, touchscreen, vision, visual}, location = {Lund, Sweden}, pages = {298--307}, posted-at = {2009-07-30 13:17:24}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Investigating touchscreen accessibility for people with visual impairments}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463193}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3946543 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3946543 N2 - Touchscreen computing devices such as the iPhone are becoming more common. However this technology is largely inaccessible to people with visual impairments. We present the results of a requirements capture study that illustrates the problems with touchscreen accessibility, and the choices visually impaired people make when choosing assistive technology. We investigate ways of overcoming touchscreen accessibility problems by comparing a raised paper overlay touchscreen based MP3 player, with a touchscreen gesture based player. Twelve blindfolded participants, and one visually impaired person, were able to operate both players, though there were problems with short impact related operations in the gesture player. From our results we provide guidelines for future designers, to help them exploit the potential of touchscreen technology for visually impaired people. CY - Lund, Sweden SN - 978-1-59593-704-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 307 TI - Investigating touchscreen accessibility for people with visual impairments PB - ACM T2 - NordiCHI '08: Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction SP - 298 KW - accessibility KW - at KW - impairments KW - touchscreen KW - vision KW - visual AU - Mcgookin, David AU - Brewster, Stephen AU - Jiang, Weiwei PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1463160.1463193 ER -