Presentation 2008/7/20
A Study on Japanese Phonetic Alphabet of Screen Readers Word Selection for Elementary School Students
Tetsuya WATANABE, Tomomi SASAKI, Shigeyoshi AOKI, Nobuyuki NAGAI,
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Abstract(in English) Japanese screen readers for blind persons are equipped with Japanese phonetic alphabet, which is a set of words that begin with each of Japanese alphabet letters and used to make it easier to distinguish a spoken alphabet letter from others. However, some words in the current sets seem unfamiliar to elementary school students. Thus, we conducted a word familiarity survey on words which are included in the current phonetic alphabet and candidate words which were newly selected from the Educational Basic Vocabulary. The result shows that a bit over 70% of the words used in the current phonetic alphabet were evaluated highly familiar and the rest unfamiliar to school children. Nearly 90% of the candidate words were evaluated highly familiar. Based on these results, it is suggested that some current phonetic alphabet words which were evaluated less familiar to school children should be replaced with the candidate words that begin with the same alphabet and evaluated highly familiar.
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Keyword(in English) Blind Persons / Screen Readers / Japanese Phonetic Alphabet / Word Familiarity
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Conference Date 2008/7/20(1days)
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Title (in English) A Study on Japanese Phonetic Alphabet of Screen Readers Word Selection for Elementary School Students
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Keyword(1) Blind Persons
Keyword(2) Screen Readers
Keyword(3) Japanese Phonetic Alphabet
Keyword(4) Word Familiarity
1st Author's Name Tetsuya WATANABE
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Special Needs Education()
2nd Author's Name Tomomi SASAKI
2nd Author's Affiliation Sendai Municipal Iwakiri Elementary School
3rd Author's Name Shigeyoshi AOKI
3rd Author's Affiliation Miyagi University of Education
4th Author's Name Nobuyuki NAGAI
4th Author's Affiliation Miyagi University of Education
Date 2008/7/20
Paper # WIT2008-25
Volume (vol) vol.108
Number (no) 170
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 7
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