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 > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind