GUIDELINES FOR DESIGN AND SELECTION OF COMPUTER DEVICES FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS
Keywords:
Visually lmpaired Persons, Accessibility, Computer-Human lnteraction, InterfacesAbstract
This paper presents a set of 74 guidelines for industry and computer designers (software and hardware) to build devices for visual!y impaired persons. The set of 74 guidelines can also help visual!y impaired persons select computer devices among those already supplied by industry.
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