Designing Accessible Maps on Mobile Devices for Blind and Visually Impaired Users

Tania Calle-Jimenez; Sergio Luján-Mora; Hugo Arias-Flores; Carlos Ramos-Galarza; Isabel L. Nunes

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_15

Designing Accessible Maps on Mobile Devices for Blind and Visually Impaired Users

Tania Calle-Jimenez^*, Sergio Luján-Mora, Hugo Arias-Flores, Carlos Ramos-Galarza, Isabel L. Nunes

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Faculty of Psychology

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Abstract

Currently, there is a high percentage of people with visual disabilities worldwide. Sometimes, these people do not have access to the information of online geographic maps. A traditional map published on the Web does not provide the necessary alternative information for people with visual disabilities. This research presents a mobile application with geographic maps that provides the information in audio format to blind and visually impaired users. The application uses the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG Tiny) format that allows additional information to be stored within the map code. SVG Tiny provides to screen readers the content inside of map code to transform text to audio. The tests were carried out through accessibility assessment tools, which showed a level of accessibility greater than 90%. In addition, tests were carried out with blind people, who were satisfied with the level of accessibility of the mobile application.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Design for Inclusion, Affective and Pleasurable Design, Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, Kansei Engineering, and Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering
Editors	Giuseppe Di Bucchianico, Cliff Sungsoo Shin, Scott Shim, Shuichi Fukuda, Gianni Montagna, Cristina Carvalho
Publisher	Springer
Pages	110-116
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9783030511937
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_15
State	Published - 2020
Event	AHFE Virtual Conference on Design for Inclusion, the Virtual Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, the Virtual Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, the Virtual Conference on Kansei Engineering, and the Virtual Conference on Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering, 2020 - San Diego, United States Duration: 16 Jul 2020 → 20 Jul 2020

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	1202 AISC
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Conference

Conference	AHFE Virtual Conference on Design for Inclusion, the Virtual Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, the Virtual Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, the Virtual Conference on Kansei Engineering, and the Virtual Conference on Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering, 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	16/07/20 → 20/07/20

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Keywords

Accessible online maps
Blind users
Mobile devices
Visually impaired users
WCAG 2.1
Web accessibility

UN SDGs

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Calle-Jimenez, T., Luján-Mora, S., Arias-Flores, H., Ramos-Galarza, C., & Nunes, I. L. (2020). Designing Accessible Maps on Mobile Devices for Blind and Visually Impaired Users. In G. Di Bucchianico, C. S. Shin, S. Shim, S. Fukuda, G. Montagna, & C. Carvalho (Eds.), Advances in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Design for Inclusion, Affective and Pleasurable Design, Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, Kansei Engineering, and Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering (pp. 110-116). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1202 AISC). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_15

Calle-Jimenez, Tania ; Luján-Mora, Sergio ; Arias-Flores, Hugo et al. / Designing Accessible Maps on Mobile Devices for Blind and Visually Impaired Users. Advances in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Design for Inclusion, Affective and Pleasurable Design, Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, Kansei Engineering, and Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering. editor / Giuseppe Di Bucchianico ; Cliff Sungsoo Shin ; Scott Shim ; Shuichi Fukuda ; Gianni Montagna ; Cristina Carvalho. Springer, 2020. pp. 110-116 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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Calle-Jimenez, T, Luján-Mora, S, Arias-Flores, H, Ramos-Galarza, C & Nunes, IL 2020, Designing Accessible Maps on Mobile Devices for Blind and Visually Impaired Users. in G Di Bucchianico, CS Shin, S Shim, S Fukuda, G Montagna & C Carvalho (eds), Advances in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Design for Inclusion, Affective and Pleasurable Design, Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, Kansei Engineering, and Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 1202 AISC, Springer, pp. 110-116, AHFE Virtual Conference on Design for Inclusion, the Virtual Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, the Virtual Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, the Virtual Conference on Kansei Engineering, and the Virtual Conference on Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering, 2020, San Diego, United States, 16/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_15

Designing Accessible Maps on Mobile Devices for Blind and Visually Impaired Users. / Calle-Jimenez, Tania; Luján-Mora, Sergio; Arias-Flores, Hugo et al.
Advances in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Design for Inclusion, Affective and Pleasurable Design, Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, Kansei Engineering, and Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering. ed. / Giuseppe Di Bucchianico; Cliff Sungsoo Shin; Scott Shim; Shuichi Fukuda; Gianni Montagna; Cristina Carvalho. Springer, 2020. p. 110-116 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1202 AISC).

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