NDLI: Refreshable tactile graphics applied to schoolbook illustrations for students with visual impairment

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Trudeau, Nicole Dufresne, Aude Petit, Grégory Levesque, Vincent Hayward, Vincent
Abstract	This article presents research on making schoolbook illustrations accessible for students with visual impairment. The MaskGen system was developed to interactively transpose illustrations of schoolbooks into tactile graphics. A methodology was designed to transpose the graphics and prepare them to be displayed on the STReSS2, a refreshable tactile device. We experimented different associations of tactile rendering and audio feedbacks to find a model that children with visual impairment could use. We experimented with three scientific graphics (diagram, bar-chart and map) with forty participants: twenty sighted adults, ten adults with visual impairment, and ten children with visual impairment. Results show that the participants with visual impairment liked the tactile graphics and could use them to explore illustrations and answer questions about their content.
Starting Page	89
Ending Page	96
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781595939760
DOI	10.1145/1414471.1414489
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-10-13
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Pedagogy Tactile graphics Accessibility Children with special needs Students with visual impairment Multimodal device
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Refreshable tactile graphics applied to schoolbook illustrations for students with visual impairment