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A Mobile Newspaper Application Interface to Enhance Information Accessibility of the Visually Impaired  

Lee, Seung Hwan (한동대학교 전산전자공학부)
Hong, Seong Ho (한동대학교 전산전자공학부)
Ko, Seung Hee (한동대학교 전산전자공학부)
Choi, Hee Yeon (광주과학기술원 전기전자컴퓨터공학부)
Hwang, Sung Soo (한동대학교 전산전자공학부)
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Journal of the HCI Society of Korea / v.11, no.3, 2016 , pp. 5-12 More about this Journal
Abstract
The number of visually-impaired people using a smartphone is currently increasing with the help Text-to-Speech(TTS). TTS converts text data in a mobile application into sound data, and it only allows sequential search. For this reason, the location of buttons and contents inside an application should be determined carefully. However, little attention has been made on TTS service environment during the development of mobile newspaper application. This makes visually-impaired people difficult to use these applications. Furthermore, a mobile application interface which also reflects the desire of the low vision is necessary. Therefore, this paper presents a mobile newspaper interface which considers the accessibility and the desire of various visually impaired people. To this end, the proposed interface locates buttons with the consideration of TTS service environment and provides search functionality. The proposed interface also enables visually impaired people to use the application smoothly by filtering out the words that are pronounced improperly and providing the proper explanation for every button. Finally, several functionalities such as increasing font size and color reversal are implemented for the low vision. Simulation results show that the proposed interface achieves better performance than other applications in terms of search speed and usability.
Keywords
Mobile interface; Visually-impaired; news application; text-to-speech;
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