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Barbara Leporini
Researcher at Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
Publications - 123
Citations - 1540
Barbara Leporini is an academic researcher from Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione. The author has contributed to research in topics: Usability & Screen reader. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 110 publications receiving 1304 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara Leporini include National Research Council & University of Pisa.
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Interacting with mobile devices via VoiceOver: usability and accessibility issues
TL;DR: This paper analyzes the interaction of blind users with Apple touchscreen devices iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, accessible to the visually-impaired thanks to their pre-installed VoiceOver screen reader or magnifier, and focuses on the gestures offered by VoiceOver to simplify interaction for blind users.
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Increasing usability when interacting through screen readers
Barbara Leporini,Fabio Paternò +1 more
TL;DR: This work proposes a set of criteria targeted to improving the navigability for a specific group of disabled users, i.e., vision-impaired people, and proposes a classification of the criteria according to usability aspects.
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Applying Web Usability Criteria for Vision-Impaired Users: Does It Really Improve Task Performance?
Barbara Leporini,Fabio Paternò +1 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that the 15 design criteria improved Web site usability both quantitatively and qualitatively by reducing the navigation time needed to perform the assigned tasks and by making the Web sites easier to navigate for blind and low-vision users.
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Vibrotactile feedback to aid blind users of mobile guides
TL;DR: This work reports on a solution for providing support to the blind using mobile museum guides by exploiting the haptic channel as a complement to the audio/vocal one, indicating that vibrotactile feedback is particularly useful to provide frequent unobtrusive indications of useful dynamic information.
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Flexible tool support for accessibility evaluation
TL;DR: MAGENTA as discussed by the authors is a tool for supporting inspection-based evaluation of accessibility and usability guidelines, and it is based on the MAGENTA toolkit, which was developed for web accessibility evaluation.