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Blindness

For our purposes, blindness is defined as no or very low vision – such that text cannot be read at any magnification.

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Background information on living with a disability

Here you will find a number of other interesting summative documents that do not deal with the DeveloperSpace topic (access to ICT), but provide a more spherical view of other aspects of disability.

GLASSENSE-VISION dataset

J. Sosa-Garcia, F. Odone

This work aims to create a system for identifying objects for the blind through visual feedback. Images from 7 different object categories were taken by wearable cameras and annotated manually.
 2017 3Vision
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WeAllWalk

G. Flores, R. Muchi

This study aims to understand how blind people navigate indoors using smartphones. Blind people wore inertial sensors and accelerometers in their phones.
 2016 15Vision
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VizWiz dataset

D. Gurari, Q. Li, Abigale J. Stangl, A. Guo, C. Lin, K. Grauman, J. Luo, Jeffrey P. Bigham

This work highlights the technological needs of blind people and attract more researchers towards accessibility research. Visual question answering (VQA) datasets consist of images taken by blind people and labeled using crowdsourcing.
 2018 11045Vision
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ORBIT: A Real-World Few-Shot Dataset for Teachable Object Recognition

D. Massiceti, L. Zintgraf, J. Bronskill, L. Theodorou, M. Harris, E. Cutrell, C. Morrison, K. Hofmann, S. Stumpf

This dataset is a collection of videos of objects recorded by people who are blind/low-vision on their mobile phones to drive research in Teachable Object Recognisers (TORs) under few-shot, high-variation conditions. Collectors recorded and submitted videos to the ORBIT benchmark dataset via an accessible iOS app.
 2021 77Vision
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Hands Holding Clues for Object Recognition in Teachable Machines

K. Lee, H. Kacorri

A dataset of hand held objects is collected to build an object recognizer that could be used by people with visual impairment. The dataset has photographs by people with and without visual impairments. A sighted and a blind individual collected images of objects using a smartphone camera.
 2019 1Vision
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VizWiz-Priv

D. Gurari, Q. Li, C. Lin, Y. Zhao, A. Guo, A. Stangl, Jeffrey P. Bigham

Images from the original VizWiz dataset are tagged for presence of private information, and regions that have that information are labelled and masked. This dataset would help train algorithms that would prevent disclosure of private information provided accidentantly or otherwise by blind people. Images taken by blind people, labeled and masked using crowdsourcing.
 2019Vision
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Getting Started with Web Accessibility in Vue

Short article presenting some accessibility concepts, fixes and implementations using Vue, plus some useful resources for those who are interested.

User Interface Options Plus (UIO+)

by Fluid Project

User Interface Options Plus (UIO+) allows you to customize websites to match your own personal needs and preferences. Settings for the adaptations can be set via the UIO+ adjuster panel or, if on a GPII (Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure) enable machine, from a keyed in preference set.

What are Adaptive User Interfaces?

Adaptive user interfaces can change their appearance and/or interaction behaviour to match the requirements of an individual user, the used device and current context conditions.