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Every day sighted people use 2D graphic representations of informations for communication and documentation. At school and work but also in the daily life they bring a lot of advantages especially efficiency and speed. Now we see all of them on computer screens. But how can blind people manage the access to such 2D representations used in computers ? The experiences, gained during the author's involvement in projects dealing with audio-tactile pictures, are presented in this paper.
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Lötzsch, J. (1994). Computer-aided access to tactile graphics for the blind. In: Zagler, W.L., Busby, G., Wagner, R.R. (eds) Computers for Handicapped Persons. ICCHP 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58476-5_188
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