Re: Audio UML

  • From: "Andreas Stefik" <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:34:40 -0800

Wow, thanks Sina! Huge help! I'll check all this out.

Andreas

On Dec 17, 2007 3:16 PM, Sina Bahram <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Check out Dorian Miller's work, deepView
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~dorianm/academics/deepview/index.html
>
> Also, you should check out anything by Chieko Asakawa at IBM, as she always
> produces top notch quality work, no matter how hard IBM tries to screw it
> up. The reason I bring her up is because I saw some interesting work from
> her in the context of making presentation slide blocks accessible via visual
> analysis, and I talked with her briefly about extending this technique to
> graph and UML accessibility. Currently she's busy with aDesigner, I believe,
> but she might have moved on already.
>
> There's a short blurb of a page on her, here:
>
> http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/chie.index.htm
> l
>
> And here is the aDesigner website:
>
> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner
>
> Analyzing visual layout for a non-visual presentation-document interface
>
> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1169016
>
> Gap analysis of ODF v1.0 Accessibility
>
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/17878/intro_and_gapanalysi
> s-0428.pdf
>
> She is also familiar with deepview, and she expressed interest in merging
> efforts with Dorian at some point in the future, although Dorian is planning
> on moving on, I believe, after he finishes up his PhD in the near future.
>
> Here is how the Urakawa Project solved the UML accessibility problem:
>
> http://urakawa.sourceforge.net/UrakawaProject_ArchitectureTeam_Milestone2.ma
> rkdown.txt.html
>
> I should not forget to mention the TeDub project, found at:
>
> http://www.TeDub.org
>
>
> Please note, it seems that TeDub's site is down.
>
> Here is a paper on TeDub.
>
> TEDUB: AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION AND PRESENTATION OF TECHNICAL DIAGRAMS FOR
> BLIND PEOPLE
>
> http://forte.fh-hagenberg.at/Project-Homepages/Blindenhund/conferences/grana
> da/papers/HORSTMANN/horstmann.html
>
> I think that should be enough to get you going, but there are some other
> resources, and I think Will Pearson, the academic's academic, the
> researcher's researcher, and PhD extraordinaire can provide some other
> links.
>
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 5:24 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Audio UML
>
> Hey folks,
>
> Anyone on this list know of any good journal or conference papers for
> representing UML using audio? Or, barring that, anyone know any tools that
> do a good job of representing UML for blind programmers?
>
> Do folks use tools like Visio with Jaws, or is it really hard to use, and as
> such, you don't really bother with UML?
>
> I've checked around the auditory display community, but all I've seen is
> papers on representing audio graphs, which is close, but not exactly what
> I'm looking for.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
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