Touch the map! Designing Interactive Maps for Visually Impaired People

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This is an author-deposited version published in : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/ Eprints ID : 12370

To link to this article : DOI :10.1145/2444800.2444802 URL : http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2444800.2444802

To cite this version : Brock, Anke Touch the map! Designing Interactive Maps for Visually Impaired People. (2013) ACM

SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing (n° 105). pp. 9-14. ISSN 1558-2337

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