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AccessibleMap

Web-Based City Maps for Blind and Visually Impaired

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2012)

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Today cities can be discovered easily with the help of web-based maps. They assist to discover streets, squares and districts by supporting orientation, mobility and feeling of safety. Nevertheless do online maps still belong to those elements of the web which are hardly or even not accessible for partially sighted people. Therefore the main objective of the AccessibleMap project is to develop methods to design web-based city maps in a way that they can be better used by people affected with limited sight or blindness in several application areas of daily life.

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  1. Hilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen Österreichs, Jägerstrasse 36, 1200, Wien, Austria

    Höckner Klaus & Daniele Marano

  2. Transport, Environment and Information, CEIT ALANOVA – Institute of Urbanism, Austria

    Julia Neuschmid, Manfred Schrenk & Wolfgang Wasserburger

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  1. University of Linz, Institut Integriert Studieren, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St, 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute “integriert studieren”, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Klaus, H., Marano, D., Neuschmid, J., Schrenk, M., Wasserburger, W. (2012). AccessibleMap. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_79

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