Blind people are confronting a number of challenges in performing activities of daily life such
as reading labels on a product, identification of currency notes, exploring unknown spaces …

Interacting with mobile applications can often be challenging for people with visual
impairments due to the poor usability of some mobile applications. The goal of this paper is …

Smartphones and tablets incorporate built-in accessibility features, but little is known about
their impact within the visually impaired population. This study explored the use of …

Touchscreens have become a de facto standard of input for mobile devices as they most
optimally use the limited input and output space that is imposed by their form factor. In recent …

More than a billion people in the world live with some form of visual impairment, and a wide
variety of technologies are now routinely used by them in the course of'getting on'in …

Mobile devices can be an important ally that improves the quality of life of visually impaired
people by permitting greater independence in the execution of certain tasks and facilitating …

Living in an informal settlement with a visual impairment can be very challenging resulting in
social exclusion. Mobile phones have been shown to be hugely beneficial to people with …

High-fidelity prototyping tools are used by software designers and developers to iron out
interface details without full implementation. However, the lack of visual accessibility in these …

Visually impaired and blind people (VIBP) have to face significant difficulties locating public
transport vehicles and bus stops due to their vision restrictions. Over the past decade …

Studies on technology adoption typically assume that a user's perception of usability and
usefulness of technology are central to its adoption. Specifically, in the case of accessibility …