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A New Slide Rule for Blind Touch Screen Users

March 25, 2009
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As seen on Mac-ccessibility, there are some engineers at University of Washington’s AIM research group working a neat project to make mobile devices with touch screens, like the iPhone, more accessible to blind users.

Slide Rule: Making Touch Screens Accessible to Blind Users
Shaun K. Kane (iSchool), Jeffrey P. Bigham (CSE), and Jacob O. Wobbrock (iSchool)
Exploring accessible one- and multi-finger interaction design for mobile and kiosk touch surfaces for visually impaired users and users without resources for visual attention

They even have a YouTube video demonstration.


Read more iPhone accessibility reviews here.

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