M. Schaefer:Text Navigation for the Visually-Impaired

Text Navigation for the Visually-Impaired

Prototype setup with surround-sound implementation of “spatial sound.”

Summer 2005

Text Navigation for the Visually-Impaired (TNVI) was a summer NSF REU project at DePauw University. We were exploring the use of surround-sound audio to aid the visually-impaired in using a web browser. With a project partner, I developed and tested an initial prototype of a browser that read web pages using what we called “spatial sound.”

TNVI is the subject of the following poster presentation:

• Schaefer, M. and Cable, M. (2006). Using Spatial Sound for Internet Text Navigation for the Visually Impaired. Presented at NCUR 2006, Asheville, North Carolina.