Making Tabletop Interaction Accessible for Blind Users

Tabletop systems and their interaction capabilities are typically a domain for sighted people only. While the content on the tabletop can already be made accessible to blind people, the interaction above the tabletop is still inaccessible. This paper describes our approach towards making the above tabletop interaction accessible to blind people by using LEAP sensors and speech recognition.

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