Accessible Terminal Application for Screen Reader Users

Date & Time

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 1:20 PM PDT  

Location

Platinum 1  

Description

Visually impaired computer users operate their machines using screen readers, which provide voice output of visualized sentences. When they use a terminal application to execute programs, they have to listen to a large number of character strings and check them sequentially, which causes considerable difficulty in finding the necessary information. Therefore, this study aims to develop an accessible terminal application for the visually impaired. This terminal is characterized by the feature to output the result of the previous operation to the complementary window for efficient retrieval and browsing of necessary information. The usability of the terminal was compared with that of PowerShell among visually impaired people with programming experience. We found that the usability of the terminal we developed was higher than that of PowerShell.

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Audience

• Higher Education
• Information & Communications Technology
• Research & Development

Audience Level

Intermediate  

Session Summary (Abstract)

We developed an accessible terminal application for the visually impaired and introduced the results of our usability evaluation. Then, we organized and shared suggestions on how to make the terminal more accessible for visually impaired programming.  

Primary Topic

Research  

Secondary Topics

• Blind/Low Vision
• Development
• Engineering
• Information & Communications Technology (ICT)

 

Session Type

Journal Track  

Presenters

• Takahiro Miura
  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Junji Onishi
  Tsukuba University of Technology

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