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Figures are an essential part of scientific literature, but students with severe print disabilities do not presently have good access to figures. Most figures are “made accessible” by a written or audio description. Tactile representations can make figures accessible, but tactile figures must have braille labels, but relatively few blind people read braille and only a small percentage of blind braille readers can read tactile graphics. Figures are potentially very accessible to a wide variety of students with print disabilities through a combination of tactile and audio description, but audio-tactile technology has been labor-intensive and often difficult to use. A new version of the ViewPlus IVEO audio/touch technology could be a major step in the evolution of audio/touch toward a future in which figures can be universally accessible to everybody. The audio/touch method and the improvements being introduced in the new IVEO version are discussed in this paper.
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Gardner, J.A. (2016). Universally Accessible Figures. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_57
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