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Handa, Kozue; Dairoku, Hitoshi; Toriyama, Yoshiko – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2010
This study investigates the priority needs of museum service accessibility for visually impaired visitors. For this purpose, conjoint analysis was utilized. Four conjoint attributes of museum services were selected: A--facilities for wayfinding; B--exhibitions and collections including objects for touching, hearing, smelling, etc.; C--information…
Descriptors: Large Type Materials, Museums, Foreign Countries, Visual Impairments
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Papadopoulos, Konstantinos; Koutsoklenis, Athanasios; Katemidou, Evangelia; Okalidou, Areti – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
This study investigated the intelligibility and comprehensibility of natural speech in comparison to synthetic speech. The results demonstrate the type of errors; the relationship between intelligibility and comprehensibility; and the correlation between intelligibility and comprehensibility and key factors, such as the frequency of use of…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Visual Impairments, Audio Equipment, Listening Comprehension
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Ingraham, Cynthia L.; Andrews, Jean F. – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2010
Deafblind readers are heterogeneous in reading skill acquisition. This qualitative study uses in-depth interviews and protocol analyses and queries the three deafblind adult participants in describing their metacomprehension, metacognitive and metalinguistic strategies used when reading different types of text. Using retrospective analysis, the…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Reading, Adults, Reading Comprehension
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Goudiras, Dimitrios B.; Papadopoulos, Konstantinos S.; Koutsoklenis, Athanasios Ch.; Papageorgiou, Virginia E.; Stergiou, Maria S. – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2009
The aim of this study was to examine reading media (braille, cassettes, screen-reader, screen-magnifier, large print, low vision aids, CCTV) used by visually impaired adults. This article reports the results of a research project involving 100 people with visual impairment. The participants were interviewed and asked to fill in a questionnaire to…
Descriptors: Large Type Materials, Place of Residence, Visual Impairments, Audio Equipment
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Schroeder, F. K. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
In this qualitative research, case study interviews were conducted to provide an in-depth examination of the meaning of braille in the lives of eight legally blind adults. Issues of self-esteem, self-identity, and the "stigma" of being a person with a disability were found to be integrally intertwined with the subjects' expressed feelings about…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Blindness, Braille