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Redesign Of Johar: A Framework For Developing Accessible Applications, Oladapo Oyebode
Redesign Of Johar: A Framework For Developing Accessible Applications, Oladapo Oyebode
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As the population of disabled people continues to grow, designing accessible applications is still a challenge, since most applications are incompatible with assistive technologies used by disabled people to interact with the computer. This accessibility issue is usually caused by the reluctance of software engineers or developers to include complete accessibility features in their applications, which in turn is often due to the extra cost and development effort required to dynamically adapt applications to a wide range of disabilities. Our aim to resolve accessibility issues led to the design and implementation of the "Johar" framework, which facilitates the development of …
A Support System For Graphics For Visually Impaired People, Hao Xu
A Support System For Graphics For Visually Impaired People, Hao Xu
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As the Internet plays an important role in today’s society, graphics is widely used to present, convey and communicate information in many different areas. Complex information is often easier to understand and analyze by graphics. Even though graphics plays an important role, accessibility support is very limited for web graphics. Web graphics accessibility is not only for people with disabilities, but also for people who want to get and use information in ways different from the ones originally intended.
One of the problems regarding graphics for blind people is that we have few data on how a blind person draws …