Manohar Swaminathan

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Challenges to Online Disability Rights Advocacy in India

People with disabilities experience high levels of social discrimination worldwide. But, these harms are more pronounced in the Global South due to the intense stigma around disability and its intersections with structural embeddings of patriarchy. The massive growth of social media in the Global South provides peopl…

CHI '21CorrespondingVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +1

Smartphone Usage by Expert Blind Users

People with vision impairments access smartphones with the help of screen reader apps such as TalkBack for Android and VoiceOver for iPhone. Prior research has mostly focused on understanding touchscreen phone adoption and typing performance of novice blind users by logging their real-world smartphone usage. Understan…

CHI '21CorrespondingGame Accessibility +1

Teachers' Perceptions around Digital Games for Children in Low-resource Schools for the Blind

Most children who are blind live in low-resource settings and attend schools that have poor technical infrastructure, overburdened teachers, and outdated curriculum. Our work explores the role digital games can play to develop digital skills of such children in the early grades. Recognizing the critical role of teache…

CHI '185th+ AuthorHonorable MentionVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +1

CodeTalk: Improving Programming Environment Accessibility for Visually Impaired Developers

In recent times, programming environments like Visual Studio are widely used to enhance programmer productivity. However, inadequate accessibility prevents Visually Impaired (VI) developers from taking full advantage of these environments. In this paper, we focus on the accessibility challenges faced by the VI develop…

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