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Presentation 2008-05-29 13:25
A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers among People with Visual Impairments 2007
Tetsuya Watanabe (Nat. Inst. of Special Needs Education), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Kazunori Minatani (Univ. of Tokyo), Hideji Nagaoka (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) SP2008-2 WIT2008-2
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) A survey was conducted on the use of personal computers, assistive tools, and application software among people with visual impairments. Among 413 effective respondents, 391 people were using personal computers. Among 391 PC users, screen readers were used by 330 people, screen magnifier software by 15 people, and Accessibility Features in the operating system by 59 people. More than half of those who answered that they were print enabled were using screen readers. The usage rate of electronic braille notetakers has risen compared to the previous survey results in 2002. Problems such as imperfect speech output, frequent freeze-ups of screen readers, application software, and the operating system, and lack of readability were raised by many respondents.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) People with Visual Impairments / Personal Computers / Screen Readers / Screen Magnifiers / Accessibility Features / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 108, no. 67, WIT2008-2, pp. 7-12, May 2008.
Paper # WIT2008-2 
Date of Issue 2008-05-22 (SP, WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee SP WIT  
Conference Date 2008-05-29 - 2008-05-30 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Kobe University 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Welfare and Speech Processing, etc. 
Paper Information
Registration To WIT 
Conference Code 2008-05-SP-WIT 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers among People with Visual Impairments 2007 
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Keyword(1) People with Visual Impairments  
Keyword(2) Personal Computers  
Keyword(3) Screen Readers  
Keyword(4) Screen Magnifiers  
Keyword(5) Accessibility Features  
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1st Author's Name Tetsuya Watanabe  
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Special Needs Education (Nat. Inst. of Special Needs Education)
2nd Author's Name Manabi Miyagi  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tsukuba University of Technology (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.)
3rd Author's Name Kazunori Minatani  
3rd Author's Affiliation University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo)
4th Author's Name Hideji Nagaoka  
4th Author's Affiliation Tsukuba University of Technology (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.)
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Speaker Author-1 
Date Time 2008-05-29 13:25:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for WIT 
Paper # SP2008-2, WIT2008-2 
Volume (vol) vol.108 
Number (no) no.66(SP), no.67(WIT) 
Page pp.7-12 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2008-05-22 (SP, WIT) 

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