Visualizations are now widely used across disciplines to understand and communicate data.
The benefit of visualizations lies in leveraging our natural visual perception. However, the …

Personal computers, palm top computers, media players and cell phones provide instant
access to information from around the world. There are a wide variety of options available to …

Context: Model-driven approaches are increasingly used in different domains, such as
education, finance and app development, in order to involve non-developers in the software …

In this paper we discuss why access to mathematical graphs is problematic for visually
impaired people. By a review of graph understanding theory and interviews with visually …

This Research Full Paper presents the design and evaluation of an auditory interface that
allows blind people to perceive workspace awareness elements in a shared environment for …

Presentation documents play important roles in many fields, such as business and
education. The principal purpose of presentation documents is to convey information …

Online whiteboards leverage our spatial thinking abilities to support rich, collaborative, and
interactive design. However, these tools are often exclusionary to people who are blind. We …

Diagrams are graphical representations of data and relations that rely on visual access,
which poses challenges for people with visual impairments. In this thesis, we explored how …

Presenting Web content through screen readers can be a challenging task, but this is the
only means of access for many blind and visually impaired users. The difficulties are more …

The principal sensory modality employed in learning is vision, and that not only increases
the difficulty for vision impaired students from accessing existing educational media but also …