Creating Tactile Graphics Cooperatively
Channel: Claudia Loitsch
Date: 2016-09-09

Who would know best how a tactile graphic should look like, for instance how thick should be lines, how many information should be represented and what are correct abbreviations in Braille? Of course, the target group itself – visually impaired and blind people. However, currently the creation and review process is not efficient. It takes too much time and is costly to physically produce a tactile graphic by a sighted person, checking the draft by a blind reviewer do another round of production. In the Tangram project a workstation has been developed to improve the process significantly. Jens Bornschein, main research in the Tangram project talks about the results and gives us a small demonstration. 

Funding note:
The creation of these resources has been partially funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union under grant no. 2014-1-DE01-KA203-000679 (MOOC Accessibility Partnership). Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.