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Improving collaborative writing for the blind

Published: 01 September 2013 Publication History

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Collaborative writing has become essential in organizations. However, current collaborative writing tools are not accessible and usable, which prevents persons who are blind from independently participating in group work when collaborative writing activities are involved. Based on several usability studies, we present a prototype of an interface that improves the collaborative writing experience for persons who are blind.

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Microsoft Corporation - MSDN Microsoft Word Command Bar (2012) Accessed on March 1, 2012 from http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/office/aa165324(v=office.10).aspx.
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Schoeberlein, J., and Wang, Y. (2012). Accessible Collaborative Writing for Persons Who Are Blind: A Usability Study. In: Proceedings of ASSETS'12, pp. 267--268. Boulder, Colorado.
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Schoeberlein, J., and Wang, Y. (2013). Providing an Accessible Track Changes Feature for Persons Who Are Blind. In: UAHCI/HCII 2013, Part III, LNCS 8011, pp. 389--398, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

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  • (2022)CollabAlly: Accessible Collaboration Awareness in Document EditingProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3517635(1-17)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
  • (2019)An Intelligent and Interactive Interface to Support Symmetrical Collaborative Educational Writing among Visually Impaired and Sighted UsersSymmetry10.3390/sym1102023811:2(238)Online publication date: 15-Feb-2019

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cover image ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing Just Accepted
September 2013
22 pages
ISSN:1558-2337
EISSN:1558-1187
DOI:10.1145/2535803
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 September 2013
Published in SIGACCESS , Issue 107

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  • (2022)CollabAlly: Accessible Collaboration Awareness in Document EditingProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3517635(1-17)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
  • (2019)An Intelligent and Interactive Interface to Support Symmetrical Collaborative Educational Writing among Visually Impaired and Sighted UsersSymmetry10.3390/sym1102023811:2(238)Online publication date: 15-Feb-2019

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