The technology disclosed herein enables narration of occurrences in a telecommunications soft client operating in a GUI-less mode. In a particular embodiment, a method includes, in a user system, operating the telecommunications soft client in a first mode. In the first mode, the user system does not present a GUI to a user for the telecommunications soft client. A screen reader application is also executing on the user system. While in the first mode, the method includes audibly describing a first occurrence for the telecommunications soft client and receiving global user input into the telecommunications soft client. The screen reader application describes a second occurrence for a first application executing, and displaying an application window, on the user system.

Various examples described herein are directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for providing a tactile response. A document that includes visual data is received. Change data for the visual data that indicates changes in data values of the visual data from a previous time is received. The visual data is rendered. An indication that a section of the document is selected is received. The section includes a first visual data. A change of the first visual data is determined from the change data. A tactile response unit is controlled to provide a tactile response based on the change of the first visual data.

Provided is a tactile sensation recognition device according to an embodiment of the disclosure including: a receiver configured to receive tactile sensation information obtained by sensing a surface of an object through a tactile sensor; a preference determiner configured to determine whether a user prefers the received tactile sensation information, based on a user tactile function f.sub.user(x); and a display displaying a user preference for the received tactile sensation information.

The present invention discloses completely digitized, smart, interactive and connected system (100) for braille learning. The invention also provides platform for consuming coupled audio-braille tactile lessons that include voice and braille data input or output serving as educational tool for visually challenged. The smart interactive system comprises a braille keyboard (117), a digital braille 10 slate (116), a proximity touch sensor (120) for input, a large braille display (110) and standard braille display (108), a vibration motor (119) and a speaker (113) for haptic and audio data output. The digital braille slate (116) gives both mechanical tactile feedback and audio feedback via speaker (115) as each braille dots are pressed using the stylus (306). The system (100) is connected to the internet 15 allowing for remote software and content updates and upload of data on usage metrics.

The present invention relates to a method, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for controlling a tactile interface device. The method of controlling the tactile interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input information generating step of generating input information into an application being executed in the computing device based on an input from the tactile interface device; and an output information generating step of generating output information to the tactile interface device based on an output of a focus area among an output from the application being executed in the computing device.

A device and method for identifying a user. The device including a terminal including a touch screen with a set of embossments superimposed on a virtual keyboard and displaying information related to a transaction, a contact and/or contactless smart card reader device, a processor and a memory containing a set of modules and/or algorithms to implement the method including activation of a low vision mode by a double-tap gesture on the screen, the searching for the center of a virtual keyboard where an embossment is located, determination of the positions of the other keys from the central key, choice and storage of a desired key by lifting the finger from the touch screen at the position of the desired key, validation of the choice of key made by a double-tap gesture on the touch screen or validation of the code/PIN by a double-tap gesture on the touch screen.

The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for providing a chat device through a tactile interface device connected to the computing device to interact with a user, and more particularly, the chat module includes: an account management module for managing a user account of a user; a chat partner management module for managing one or more chat partners registered in the user account; a chat room management module for managing a chat room where the registered one or more chat partners are present; a chat conducting module for conducting a chat with chat room participants including the one or more chat partners in the chat room; and a tactile user interface (TUI) module for converting display data displayed on a screen of the computing device into an output signal for implementing a tactile screen of the tactile interface device.

Certain aspects and features of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for simultaneously providing two versions of an application's interface using a single codebase. More specifically, certain aspects and features of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for executing a single codebase to depict time-bound information in a calendar format and, at the same time, make the displayed time-bound information consumable by screen reader applications.

The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for providing an internet browsing service through a tactile interface device, and more particularly, to a method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for providing an internet browsing service through a tactile interface device, which allow a visually impaired person to intuitively use, interact, and control the tactile interface device that corresponds to a multi-array tactile cell-based smart braille device in order to increase the efficiency of the use of a smart device (smart phone, smart pad, etc.) or a smart braille device and to improve the level of informatization of the visually impaired person, so that the visually impaired person may intuitively use the content of a web page.

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.