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Accessible on-line floor plans.
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Better access to on-line information graphics is a pressing need for people who are blind or have severe vision impairment. We present a new model for accessible presentation of on-line information graphics and demonstrate its use for presenting floor plans. While floor plans are increasingly provided on-line, people who are blind are at best provided with only a high-level textual description. This makes it difficult for them to understand the spatial arrangement of the objects on the floor plan. Our new approach provides users with significantly better access to such plans. The users can automatically generate an accessible version of a floor plan from an on-line floor plan image quickly and independently by using a web service. This generates a simplified graphic showing the rooms, walls, doors and windows in the original floor plan as well as a textual overview. The accessible floor plan is presented on an iPad using audio feedback. As the users touch graphic elements on the screen, the element they are touching is described by speech and non-speech audio in order to help them navigate the graphic.
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People with blindness or visual impairment have highlighted the need for an assistive interface to pinpoint elements on tactile surfaces.
“People with BVI have highlighted the need for an assistive interface to pinpoint elements on tactile surfaces (9, 20–24).”
From SONOICE! a Sonar–Voice dynamic user interface for assisting individuals with blindness and visual impairment in pinpointing elements in 2D tactile readers (2024) · cites this paper as [9]
The Results (page unavailable) report a blind participant’s suggestion to query where rooms are relative to their finger, supporting the need for help locating elements. But the interface studied presents floor plans on an iPad touchscreen with audio feedback, not on a tactile surface; the Introduction explicitly says it does not require printed tactile graphics. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe design choices for the three user interfaces were based on the widespread adoption of sonification and speech-based user interfaces in assistive technology.
“The design choices were based on the widespread adoption of sonification and speech-based UIs in assistive technology, facilitating enhanced access to tactile graphics as supported by relevant studies (9, 22, 34, 50, 61, 62).”
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The Presentation Technologies for Accessible Graphics section describes sonification and speech-based descriptions as approaches to accessible graphics. Section 3, FLOOR PLAN PRESENTATION, describes GraViewer’s use of VoiceOver and non-speech audio. The paper does not say that widespread adoption motivated the design of three user interfaces; it instead explains its audio-only choice in terms of avoiding a data glove and enabling deployment on an iPad. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredAssistive technology typically relies on either voice or sonification approaches, making a combination of these two methods less common.
“Another factor that could have contributed to this may stem from the fact that assistive technology typically relies on either voice or sonification approaches (9, 34, 50, 61, 84), making a combination of these two methods less common and potentially leading to unfamiliarity or hesitation among users.”
From SONOICE! a Sonar–Voice dynamic user interface for assisting individuals with blindness and visual impairment in pinpointing elements in 2D tactile readers (2024) · cites this paper as [9]
The “Presentation Technologies for Accessible Graphics” section describes audio-only presentations as based on either textual description or sonification, supporting that distinction for accessible graphics. It does not establish that combining voice and sonification is uncommon across assistive technology; in fact, “Floor Plan Presentation” describes its own system using both spoken descriptions and non-speech audio. (LLM, conf=0.81)
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Metadata
- Authors
- Goncu, C., Madugalla, A., Marinai, S., & Marriott, K.
- Affiliations
- Monash University (AU)
- Data61 (AU)
- University of Florence (IT)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web
- Published
- 2015-05-18
- Pages
- 388-398
- OpenAlex
- W2139486723
- Semantic Scholar
- 61b51629ce9b3d8d6dde98cb0e8dc6ec0b538097
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 4.94
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) (publishedVersion)
- Florence Research (University of Florence) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Monash University Research Portal (Monash University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- NICTA Victoria
- ARC (LP110200469)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Keywords
- floor plans, blind users, visual impairment, web accessibility, audio feedback, speech synthesis, tactile feedback, iPad, web services, spatial description
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