Summary: Usable Gestures for Blind People:

Understanding Preference and Performance

Shaun K. Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock
The Information School, DUB Group

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195 USA

{skane, wobbrock}@uw.edu

ABSTRACT
Despite growing awareness of the accessibility issues
surrounding touch screen use by blind people, designers
still face challenges when creating accessible touch screen
interfaces. One major stumbling block is a lack of
understanding about how blind people actually use touch
screens. We conducted two user studies that compared how

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle
Kane, Shaun K. - Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences