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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Production of Accessible Tactile Graphics
Authors : Denise Prescher, Jens Bornschein, Gerhard Weber
Published in: Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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To allow blind and visually impaired users participation in learning visualized concepts and ideas it is important to provide them not only with text but also with graphics. As the effort and expertise needed for manually transcribing graphics is time-consuming we need a better understanding of the decision-making process leading to the support of alternative descriptions and materials for tactile exploration. We performed two surveys, the first one on current practices used for the production of accessible graphics in Germany, the second one on user experiences in exploring and constructing tactile graphics. As result we have defined some requirements for enhancing the production of accessible tactile graphics by a software tool that not only supports the creation of image masters and descriptions, but also includes blind users in the editing process.