A method for enabling a user to customize a web accessibility profile, comprising: displaying an accessibility a GUI for modifying multiple display parameters of a website, the accessibility GUI presenting multiple web accessibility profiles associated with differing disabilities; receiving initial input via the accessibility GUI indicating a selection of a specific web accessibility profile; based on the initial input, implementing multiple predefined changes in a group of display parameters of the website to address a disability associated with the specific web accessibility profile; presenting via the accessibility GUI, information indicative of the implemented changes; receiving additional input via the accessibility GUI, indicative of a selection of at least one alteration to at least one of the multiple predefined changes; and in response to the additional input, overriding at least one of the multiple predefined changes to thereby enable customization of the selected web accessibility profile.

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that when executed enable users to switch between web accessibility profiles, comprising: receiving a command to open an accessibility GUI for a website exhibiting a set of display parameter having initial values; displaying the GUI for the website including indications of a plurality of web accessibility profiles, each associated with a differing disability; receiving a first input via the GUI indicating a selection of a specific web accessibility profile associated with a specific disability; based on the first input, implementing a first website display change corresponding to the specific accessibility profile altering a plurality of the initial values of the set of display parameters to address the specific disability; receiving a second input via the GUI; and based on the second input, implementing a second website display change that adjusts the altered values of the set of display parameters.

An interactive braille display system includes a processor and a display unit in electronic communication with the processor. The display unit includes a braille cell unit and an interactive unit in physical contact with the braille cell unit. The interactive unit includes a surface layer for displaying braille information and sensing tactile contact by a user. The interactive unit also includes a subsurface layer in physical communication with the surface layer, the subsurface layer including electrodes for detecting a capacitance change caused by the tactile contact by the user. The capacitance change corresponds to a position of the tactile contact by the user.

A system configured to provide a transcription building interface may be usable by transcribers to produce versions of textbooks and other works in accessible formats such as braille. The interface may receive data from a publisher of a work, such as a NIMAS file set, which provides a starting point for transcription but must be further modified to produce a production ready braille version. The interface presents a print display, a braille display, and a style display of the underlying data, and may receive input modifying the content of one or more of those displays, with any changes synchronized across each. The interface further provides toolsets that may be used to automate the creation of certain complex content in braille, including tools for describing lists, mathematical concepts, and images, which have conventionally been manually encoded.

In certain embodiments, secure data presentation may be facilitated for a tactile system. In some embodiments, the tactile system may include a display having carbon nanotube-based components having a surface that absorbs at least 96% of visible light. The tactile system may obtain tactile data and present the tactile data on the display by adjusting one or more positions of the carbon nanotube-based components based on the tactile data. In some embodiments, the tactile system may obtain environmental data (e.g., lighting data, presence data, etc.) for an environment (in which the display is located) and perform the adjustment of the positions of the carbon nanotube-based components based on (i) the tactile data and (ii) the environmental data.

A method, computer system, and computer program product for cognitive braille adjustment is provided. The embodiment may include identifying a language in which text on a document is written. The embodiment may also include generating a natural language understanding dataset of the text. The embodiment may further include performing a translation of the text to braille using the natural language understanding dataset. The embodiment may also include presenting the translation to a user using one or more associated hardware units.

A gadget for a multimedia management of computing devices enables the blind and the visually impaired to use desktop computers, laptops, tablet PCs, handheld PCs, smart phones and all other mobile computing devices which use a screen that is touch sensitive to communicate with users, and that can convert that touch into vibrations of different intensity or frequency. The program background (5) communicates with users by using colored image contents (3), braille characters, vibrations, sounds, music and spoken words. The gadget of the invention is characterized by having a mechanical accessory in the form of a transparent raster mesh (1), which is spread over a classic touchscreen (2) of a computing device (10) and with it, enables spacial orientation for the blind and the visually impaired persons on an otherwise smooth surface of the screen (2), and with it, gives them the possibility to effectively use any modem, serial-made computing device (10) that can express a multi-point touch with vibrations of different strengths and frequencies, while the communication with fingers of the blind user happens through two-dimensional graphic elements (3), composed braille characters in the form of matrix (6) and menu bars (M1, M2, Mx, . . . ).

A system for managing content sent to a screen reader is provided. The system is configured to monitor the context of a window, wherein the window context is minimized or active; and when the window context is minimized: monitor for a received textual message in a dynamic area of the window; generate, for each consecutive time interval of a pre-determined fixed time period, an announcement, for each textual message context, indicating that a textual message of a particular context has been detected responsive to the first textual message of the particular context being detected during the time interval and not for any subsequent textual message of the particular context detected during the time interval; and send one announcement for each textual message context per time interval to the screen reader if at least one textual message for a particular context was received during the time interval.

An adapter for a tactile display is disclosed. The adapter can be used with a tactile display, such as a display that presents braille characters, to change or modify what is presented to a user. In some embodiments, the braille dots which make up a braille character can be made smaller or larger; spaced closer together or further apart; have a different shape; and/or an image or non-braille characters can be presented to a user of the tactile display using the disclosed adapter.

Disclosed is a tablet with an improved Braille display. The Braille display employs a pin array that allows for the selective use of either six or eight pin cells. This is accomplished by turning off or on a pin pair adjacent to each cell. The spacing of the pins also allows capacitive sensors to be located adjacent to each Braille cell. These sensors are used to determine the location of the user's finger upon the display. The pin spacing further allows geometric shapes to be generated in additional to text.