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MAGNEX: a text editor for the visually impaired

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ACM Annual Computer Science Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science table of contents

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 402 - 407

Year of Publication: 1988

ISBN:0-89791-260-8

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Avram R. Vener	AT&T Information Systems, Room MT 1G-508, 200 Laurel Avenue, Middletown, NJ and Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Ephraim P. Glinert	Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

MAGNEX, a general purpose full screen text editor which incorporates features intended to make it especially useful to individuals with a wide range of visual impairments, is described. The philosophy and concepts central to the design of software such as this are discussed, as are pertinent details regarding the specific implementation at hand. A user's manual is provided as an appendix.

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	1	Richard M. Stallman, EMACS the extensible, customizable self-documenting display editor, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.16 n.6, p.147-156, June 1981
	2	G. Weber. Gestures as a Means for the Blind to Interact with a Computer. In INTERACT'87, Proc. 2rid IFIP Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction, Stuttgart, pages 593-595, September 1-4, 1987.
	3	Ephraim P. Glinert, A large font virtual terminal interface: a software prosthesis for the visually impaired, Communications of the ACM, v.27 n.6, p.567-572, June 1984 [doi>10.1145/358080.358099]

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	Richard L. Kline , Ephraim P. Glinert, Improving GUI accessibility for people with low vision, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.114-121, May 07-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado, United States
	Ephraim P. Glinert , Bryant W. York, Computers and people with disabilities, Communications of the ACM, v.35 n.5, p.32-35, May 1992
	Ephraim P. Glinert , Bryant W. York, Computers and People with Disabilities, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), v.1 n.2, p.1-7, October 2008