Vikas Ashok

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Towards Enabling Blind People to Independently Write on Printed Forms

Filling out printed forms (e.g., checks) independently is currently impossible for blind people, since they cannot pinpoint the locations of the form fields, and quite often, they cannot even figure out what fields (e.g., name) are present in the form. Hence, they always depend on sighted people to write on their beha…

CHI '193rd AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +2

Accessible Gesture Typing for Non-Visual Text Entry on Smartphones

Gesture typing--entering a word by gliding the finger sequentially over letter to letter-- has been widely supported on smartphones for sighted users. However, this input paradigm is currently inaccessible to blind users: it is difficult to draw shape gestures on a virtual keyboard without access to key visuals. This…

IUI '182nd AuthorDeaf & Hard-of-Hearing Support (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration) +1

Write-it-Yourself with the Aid of Smartwatches: A Wizard-of-Oz Experiment with Blind People

Working with non-digital, standard printed materials has always been a challenge for blind people, especially writing. Blind people very often depend on others to fill out printed forms, write checks, sign receipts and documents. Extant assistive technologies for working with printed material have exclusively focused…

CHI '182nd AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

SteeringWheel: A Locality-Preserving Magnification Interface for Low Vision Web Browsing

Low-vision users struggle to browse the web with screen magnifiers. Firstly, magnifiers occlude significant portions of the webpage, thereby making it cumbersome to get the webpage overview and quickly locate the desired content. Further, magnification causes loss of spatial locality and visual cues that commonly defi…

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