Rotate-and-Press: A Non-visual Alternative to Point-and-Click?

Most computer applications manifest visually rich and dense graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that are primarily tailored for an easy-and-efficient sighted interaction using a combination of two default input modalities, namely the keyboard and the mouse/touchpad. However, blind screen-reader users predominantly rely only on keyboard, and therefore struggle to interact with these applications, since it is both arduous and tedious to perform the visual ‘point-and-click’ tasks such as accessing the various application commands/features using just keyboard shortcuts supported by screen readers.

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