Technological Tools and Challenges in the Tactile Adaptation of
ImagesBy Trudeau, Nicole, PhD; Assistive Technology - Shaping
the Future: AAATE 2003 Conference Proceedings, Vol. 11, No. 1,
pp. 486-489 Publication Date: 2003 Paper presents a case for the
standardization of tactile adaptations of visual images, which
may be accomplished with a prototype tool called GRAPHTACT. The
tool is composed of three blank analytical worksheets, each of
which is designed to serve a specific purpose: (1) as a guide to
identify and articulate the graphical content of a text; (2) as
a guide to the description of the content and the organization
of each of the pages of the book; and (3) as a guide to the
detailed description of each of the images contained in the
text. The three pages are referred to as visual data worksheets,
and they can be applied to each page and image in a book.
GRAPHTACT was in the process of validation and development at
the time the paper was composed. Published by: IOS Press
(Website:http://www.iospre