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Making Smart Phones Accessible to Braille Users

Authors:
Andrew Wells
Robert Alexander
Maryam Etezad

Keywords: braille; haptic; smartphone; accessibility

Abstract:
Smartphones are an important tool in modern life, but they are primarily a visual medium. This poses an accessibility problem for the blind and vision-impaired in interacting with the internet-connected world. The ultimate goal of this research is to create a small, lower-cost braille-type screen reader and display for use with smartphones. The device would use a 6x6 grid of piezoelectrically actuated pins being controlled by an application on the phone. Not just text, but images from the phone can be represented on the device. By producing an affordable touch-based screen reader that can also display images from the screen, smartphone accessibility could be improved for those with vision impairments, which ties into the conference theme of smart accessibility.

Pages: 37 to 38

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: April 24, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8378

ISBN: 978-1-68558-084-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2023 to April 28, 2023