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A personal information management approach for people with low vision or blindness
A method and tool is presented that extends a word-processor so as to assist with organising personal notes and other information. It is usable by people who are blind or who have low vision, as well as by others, on a small display. The basic principle ...
Using cascading style sheets to accommodate websites for individuals with low vision
The Web Community tolerates bad markup for visual effect even when the practice excludes partially sighted users. This paper describes a two-phase process to recondition websites: deconstruction and building a new skin. It uses cascading style sheets. ...
Assets 2005 doctoral consortium
The ASSETS 2005 Doctoral Consortium was a resounding success, involving eight doctoral candidates and three faculty advisors, plus one transitional advisor. The doctoral candidates included:•Miguel AlonsoFlorida International University•Rita HubertPace ...
A method for enhancing digital information displayed to computer users with visual refractive errors via spatial and spectral based processing
The ability to interact effectively with computers through typical graphic user interfaces (GUIs) is greatly affected by any refractive errors present in an individual's visual system. These errors can be mathematically modeled (as the wavefront ...
Accessibility and usability guidelines for mobile devices in home health monitoring
The use of tele-medicine, telecommunications, web-based applications and medical monitoring devices can provide a 'medical life-line' for the chronically ill, disabled and elderly home-bound persons. This research develops a guideline of accessibility ...
Distal object perception through haptic user interfaces for individuals who are blind
This paper proposes design, development and testing of an assistive device for distal environment perception for individuals who are blind through a haptic user interface (touch-based interface).
Clique: a conversant, task-based audio display for GUI applications
The purpose of the Clique project is to explore a new way of adapting applications with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for use in audio. Existing adaptation methods retain the components and metaphors of visual interfaces in the audio displays they ...
Using functional assessment to improve information systems research, design and technology matching
Information systems researchers and developers require an appropriate means of assessing system user characteristics and capabilities. At this time, no such assessment measures exist. Current measurement tools are designed to assess activities of daily ...
Storytelling with a virtual peer as an intervention for children with autism
Story Listening Systems (SLS), a model of technology and literacy development, are shown to promote language skills development in children through storytelling with a virtual peer [4]. However, SLS make several assumptions about children:(1) they rely ...
Accessibility heuristics utilizing learnability characteristics of synthesized speech applications
Most existing models for marketing of assistive technology concentrate on the development and improvement of product design and accessibility [10]. Instead, the Alt-Learning Project will concentrate on improving the delivery of assistive technology by ...
A robust design for accessible text entry
This paper describes the author's dissertation research on designing, implementing, and evaluating the Edge Write text entry method. The goal of this research is to develop a method that is highly "robust," remaining accessible and accurate across a ...
