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An experimental sound-based hierarchical menu navigation system for visually handicapped use of graphical user interfaces

Published: 31 October 1994 Publication History

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The use of modern computers by the visually handicapped has become more difficult over the past few years. In earlier systems the user interface was a simple character based environment. In those systems, simple devices like screen readers, braille output and speech synthesizers were effective. Current systems now run Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) which have rendered these simple aids almost useless.
In the current work we are developing a tonally based mechanism that allows the visually handicapped user to navigate through the same complex hierarchical menu structures used in the GUI. The software can be easily, and cheaply, incorporated in modern user interfaces, making them available for use by the visually handicapped. In the remainder of this paper we present a description of the sound-based interfaces as well as the techniques we have developed to test them.

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cover image ACM Conferences
Assets '94: Proceedings of the first annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies
October 1994
158 pages
ISBN:0897916492
DOI:10.1145/191028
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Published: 31 October 1994

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ASSETS94: First International ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies
October 31 - November 1, 1994
California, Marina Del Rey, USA

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