@inproceedings{d38ec630bad44feb8ee206425c34dff1,
title = "Feel the web: Towards the design of haptic screen interfaces for accessible web browsing",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Haptic interfaces, Screen reader, Tactile feedback, Web accessibility, Web applications",
author = "Andrii Soviak and Vikas Ashok and Yevgen Borodin and Yury Puzis and Ramakrishnan, \{I. V.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 ACM.; 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2015 ; Conference date: 26-10-2015 Through 28-10-2015",
year = "2015",
month = oct,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1145/2700648.2811385",
language = "English",
series = "ASSETS 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "391--392",
booktitle = "ASSETS 2015 - Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility",
}