Improving the accessibility of digital documents for visually impaired users : Contributions of the Textual Architecture Model

Laurent Sorin (1) , Mustapha Mojahid (2) , Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (3, 4) , Julie Lemarié (5)

1 IRIT-VORTEX - Visual Objects from Reality To Expression
2 IRIT-ELIPSE - Etude de L’Interaction Personne SystèmE
3 IRIT-MELODI - MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours
4 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5 CLLE-LTC - Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie

This paper presents a framework which aims at describing text formatting, based on a model coming from the field of logic and linguistics, the Textual Architecture Model [23]. The goal is to improve documents accessibility for blind users. The project will later focus on evaluating the efficiency of different navigation and content presentation strategies, based on this framework.

Mots clés: Text structure; Visual signals; Blind people; Documents accessibility

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Laurent Sorin, Mustapha Mojahid, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Julie Lemarié. Improving the accessibility of digital documents for visually impaired users : Contributions of the Textual Architecture Model. 7th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2013), Jul 2013, Las Vegas, NV, United States. pp.399-407, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-39194-1_47⟩. ⟨hal-01264527⟩