Presentation | 2008/5/22 A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers among People with Visual Impairments 2007 Tetsuya WATANABE, Manabi MIYAGI, Kazunori MINATANI, Hideji NAGAOKA, |
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Abstract(in English) | A survey was conducted on the use of personal computers, assistive tools, and application software among people with visual impairments. Among 413 effective respondents, 391 people were using personal computers. Among 391PC users, screen readers were used by 330 people, screen magnifier software by 15 people, and Accessibility Features in the operating system by 59 people. More than half of those who answered that they were print enabled were using screen readers. The usage rate of electronic braille notetakers has risen compared to the previous survey results in 2002. Problems such as imperfect speech output, frequent freeze-ups of screen readers, application software, and the operating system, and lack of readability were raised by many respondents. |
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Keyword(in English) | People with Visual Impairments / PCs / Screen Readers / Screen Magnifiers / Accessibility Features |
Paper # | SP2008-2,WIT2008-2 |
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Committee | SP |
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Conference Date | 2008/5/22(1days) |
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Language | JPN |
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Title (in English) | A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers among People with Visual Impairments 2007 |
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Keyword(1) | People with Visual Impairments |
Keyword(2) | PCs |
Keyword(3) | Screen Readers |
Keyword(4) | Screen Magnifiers |
Keyword(5) | Accessibility Features |
1st Author's Name | Tetsuya WATANABE |
1st Author's Affiliation | National Institute of Special Needs Education() |
2nd Author's Name | Manabi MIYAGI |
2nd Author's Affiliation | Research and Support Center on Higher Education for the Hearing and Visually Impaired, Tsukuba University of Technology |
3rd Author's Name | Kazunori MINATANI |
3rd Author's Affiliation | Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo |
4th Author's Name | Hideji NAGAOKA |
4th Author's Affiliation | Research and Support Center on Higher Education for the Hearing and Visually Impaired, Tsukuba University of Technology |
Date | 2008/5/22 |
Paper # | SP2008-2,WIT2008-2 |
Volume (vol) | vol.108 |
Number (no) | 66 |
Page | pp.pp.- |
#Pages | 6 |
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