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Feel the Web: Towards the Design of Haptic Screen Interfaces for Accessible Web Browsing

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Web browsing with screen readers is tedious and frustrating, largely due to the inability of blind screen-reader users to get spatial information about the structure of web pages and utilize it for effective navigation. Haptic interfaces have the potential to provide blind users with a tactile --feel-- for the 2-D layout of web pages and help them focus screen reading on specific parts of the webpage. In this preliminary work, we explore the utility of a simple haptic web-browsing interface -- tactile overlays, and report on a preliminary user study with 10 blind participants who performed various web-browsing tasks with and without these overlays. We also analyzed the user-interaction behavior and explored the appropriate design choices and their tradeoffs in the space of haptic-interface design for accessible web browsing

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    ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility
    October 2015
    466 pages
    ISBN:9781450334006
    DOI:10.1145/2700648
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    1. haptic interfaces
    2. screen reader
    3. tactile feedback
    4. web accessibility
    5. web applications

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