Computers Helping People with Special Needs, Part I

1. Front Matter

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2. Design for Adaptive Content Processing

   1. Design for Adaptive Content Processing: Introduction to the Special Thematic Session

      • David Crombie

      Pages 1-4

   2. Generating DAISY Books from OpenOffice.org

      • Christophe Strobbe, Jan Engelen, Vincent Spiewak

      Pages 5-11

   3. Combining Web Services and DAISY for the Production and Delivery of Audio Tactile Diagrams

      • Declan McMullen, Donal Fitzpatrick

      Pages 12-19

   4. Wiki, a New Way to Produce Accessible Documents

      • Alex Bernier, Dominique Burger, Bruno Marmol

      Pages 20-26

   5. Guided Generation and Evaluation of Accessible Scalable Vector Graphics

      • Bernhard Dürnegger, Christina Feilmayr, Wolfram Wöß

      Pages 27-34

   6. Improving the Re-digitisation Process by Using Software with Automatic Metadata Detection

      • Reinhard Ruemer, Klaus Miesenberger, Franz Kummer, Claus Gravenhorst

      Pages 35-42

   7. New Production and Delivery System for Pupils with Disabilities in Austria as Chance for Higher Quality Output

      • Reinhard Ruemer, Klaus Miesenberger

      Pages 43-46

   8. A Flexible Software Architecture Concept for the Creation of Accessible PDF Documents

      • Alireza Darvishy, Hans-Peter Hutter, Alexander Horvath, Martin Dorigo

      Pages 47-52

3. Digital Access to Documents for People with Print Disabilities

   1. DAISY Kindergarten Books and Rocket Science Journals

      • John A. Gardner, Carolyn K Gardner, Vladimir Bulatov, Blake Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Robert A. Kelly et al.

      Pages 53-56

   2. Exploiting the Daisy Format for Automated, Single-Source Braille Publishing

      • Lars Ballieu Christensen

      Pages 57-61

   3. Rapid Listening of DAISY Digital Talking Books by Speech-Rate Conversion Technology for People with Visual Impairments

      • Naoyuki Tazawa, Shinichi Totihara, Yukio Iwahana, Atsushi Imai, Nobumasa Seiyama, Toru Takagi

      Pages 62-68

   4. E-Books and Audiobooks: What about Their Accessibility?

      • Jan Engelen

      Pages 69-73

   5. E-Books and Inclusion: Dream Come True or Nightmare Unending?

      • Alistair McNaught, Shirley Evans, Simon Ball

      Pages 74-77

   6. Collaboratively Generated Content on the Audio-Tactile Map

      • Armin B. Wagner

      Pages 78-80

   7. Generating Braille from OpenOffice.org

      • Bert Frees, Christophe Strobbe, Jan Engelen

      Pages 81-88

   8. Sonification of ASCII Circuit Diagrams

      • Angela Constantinescu, Karin Müller

      Pages 89-91

   9. Accessing Google Docs via Screen Reader

      • Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporini, Giulio Mori, Victor M. R. Penichet

      Pages 92-99

   10. Making Digital Maps Accessible Using Vibrations

       • Bernhard Schmitz, Thomas Ertl

       Pages 100-107

   11. Non-visual Navigation of Spreadsheet Tables

       • Iyad Abu Doush, Enrico Pontelli

       Pages 108-115

Welcome to the Proceedings of ICCHP 2010! We were proud to welcome participants from more than 40 countries from all over the world to this year’s ICCHP. Since the late 1980s, it has been ICCHP’s mission to support and reflect development in the field of “Assistive Technologies,” eAccessibility and eInclusion. With a focus on scientific quality, ICCHP has become an important reference in our field. The 2010 conference and this collection of papers once again fulfilled this mission. The International Programme Committee, comprising 106 experts from all over the world, selected 147 full and 44 short papers out of 328 abstracts submitted to ICCHP. This acceptance ratio of about half of the submissions demonstrates our strict pursuit of scientific quality both of the programme and in particular of the proceedings in your hands. An impressive number of experts agreed to organize “Special Thematic Sessions” (STS) for ICCHP 2010. These STS help to bring the meeting into sharper focus in several key areas. In turn, this deeper level of focus helps to collate a state of the art and mainstream technical, social, cultural and political developments.

• Braille displays
• Collaborative Learning
• E-Learning
• Internet
• Social Networking
• Usability
• Web
• Web 2.0
• Wiki
• accessibility
• cognitive impairment
• haptic interfaces
• hearing impairment
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• rendering

• Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Linz, Austria

  Klaus Miesenberger

• Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

  Joachim Klaus

• fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Vienna, Austria

  Wolfgang Zagler

• University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, USA

  Arthur Karshmer

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