For users with sensory or mobility impairments the evolution of mobile devices introduces new accessibility issues. For instance, touch screens, lacking tactile cues, are hard to use by blind users without additional feedback. These problems are being mitigated through new interaction paradigms, such as screen readers: software that describe the currently selected elements on the interface through vocal cues.
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Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Date of Conference: 19-23 March 2012