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The physical keypads that used to dominate our mobile devices provided additional support for non-visual interaction - the keys could be recognized tactually, the interfaces were simpler and consistent. When combined with a screen reader, these devices could be easily operated by blind people. The advent of smartphones, with their rich, feature-filled applications and interfaces, have brought forward additional challenges for blind users. Apps and features are no longer developed by a single entity leading to an overwhelming variety of interfaces. We present an approach that superimposes a virtual overlay to all other interfaces ensuring interface consistency by re-structuring how content is accessed in every screen. To explore the approach, we split the screen, dedicating half to a configurable set of static options mimicking always available physical buttons regardless of context; while the other enables the standard content navigation gestures with the ability to re-order content and apply filters. In a qualitative study with nine visually impaired participants, the virtual overlays were reported as simpler to use, while still providing full-fledged usage of the system and the third party applications, and were seen as effective and useful, particularly for novice users.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1145/3132525.3132558 | ASSETS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Blind, Smartphone, Accessibility, Personalizable Interface | Screen reader,Computer science,Gesture,Third party,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Overlay,Multimedia | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4503-4926-0 | 1 | 0.35 |
References | Authors | |
7 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| André Rodrigues | 1 | 53 | 4.57 |
| André L. Santos | 2 | 75 | 11.63 |
| Kyle Montague | 3 | 147 | 21.54 |
| Tiago Guerreiro | 4 | 366 | 45.90 |