{"title":"User interface of a document-processing reader for the blind","authors":"C. Asakawa","doi":"10.1109/MMCS.1996.535016","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"After describing the problems that blind users face in accessing conventional printed documents, we give an overview of a document-processing reader for OS/2. The discussion concerns mainly the user interface of the system, since GUIs present serious problems for blind users. Instead of icons and a mouse, the system interface is built around voice menus and a numeric keypad. A structured file is also created to allow users to read a text quickly after the scanning and character recognition is complete.","PeriodicalId":371043,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMCS.1996.535016","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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After describing the problems that blind users face in accessing conventional printed documents, we give an overview of a document-processing reader for OS/2. The discussion concerns mainly the user interface of the system, since GUIs present serious problems for blind users. Instead of icons and a mouse, the system interface is built around voice menus and a numeric keypad. A structured file is also created to allow users to read a text quickly after the scanning and character recognition is complete.