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A large font virtual terminal interface: a software prosthesis for the visually impaired

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 27 , Issue 6 (June 1984) table of contents

Pages: 567 - 572

Year of Publication: 1984

ISSN:0001-0782

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Ephraim P. Glinert

Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A large font software interface running under UNIX1 is of great assistance to the severely visually impaired in the interactive use of computers. The interface, which functions as a virtual terminal as far as other processes are concerned, displays all characters (both user and system generated) at user-selectable degrees of magnification, yet is compatible with any standard CRT/keyboard terminal.

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CITED BY 5

	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
	Avram R. Vener , Ephraim P. Glinert, MAGNEX: a text editor for the visually impaired, Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science, p.402-407, February 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, 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
	Avram Vener , Ephraim Glinert, The MAGNEX text editor for the Comodore Amiga personal computer, ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
	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