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Presentation 2014-09-12 16:10
A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers and the Internet among Blind and Visually Impaired People in 2013
Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (NDC) WIT2014-23
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) A survey was conducted on the use of personal computers and the Internet by blind and visually impaired people. Among 304 respondents, 290 people (95.4%) used personal computers. The survey results are as follows: The operating system used by the most people was Windows 7. The number of refreshable Braille display users decreased whereas the number of portable braille notetaker users increased. In the market of screen reader, Web browser, word processor, OCR, database and other types of software, products from Kochi System Development ranked at the top. Problems in using PCs raised by most respondents were the lack of Web accessibility, concretely speaking, inaccessibility to some Web pages, images, Flash objects and PDF files, difficulty in searching for desired information and reading Web pages, and inaccessibility to CAPTCHA. The solutions to these kinds of inaccessibility are required of the PC user environments.
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(in English) Blind People / People with Low Vision / Personal Computers / the Internet / User Survey / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 114, no. 217, WIT2014-23, pp. 25-30, Sept. 2014.
Paper # WIT2014-23 
Date of Issue 2014-09-05 (WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee WIT  
Conference Date 2014-09-12 - 2014-09-13 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Kobe Univ. Kusunoki Campus 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Well-being Information Technology, etc. 
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Conference Code 2014-09-WIT 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers and the Internet among Blind and Visually Impaired People in 2013 
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Keyword(1) Blind People  
Keyword(2) People with Low Vision  
Keyword(3) Personal Computers  
Keyword(4) the Internet  
Keyword(5) User Survey  
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1st Author's Name Tetsuya Watanabe  
1st Author's Affiliation University of Niigata (Niigata Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Toshimitsu Yamaguchi  
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Niigata (Niigata Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Kazunori Minatani  
3rd Author's Affiliation National Center for University Entrance Examinations (NDC)
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Date Time 2014-09-12 16:10:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for WIT 
Paper # WIT2014-23 
Volume (vol) vol.114 
Number (no) no.217 
Page pp.25-30 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2014-09-05 (WIT) 

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