UnWindows: A Visual Human-Computer Interface for the Visually Impaired

基于窗口的人机界面的作用不断扩大，虽然给视力正常的用户带来了巨大的改善，但实际上对数百万视力受损但没有失明的用户是有害的，而且往往是高度有害的。事实上，目前的趋势可能会扩大而不是缩小正常用户和视障用户之间的差距，以至于后者可能很快就会发现自己几乎完全被排除在用户社区之外。本研究的目标是防止这种情况发生，通过开发概念和实现一个原型，以替代目前基于窗口的界面，使视觉障碍成为一流的计算机用户。

The ever expanding role of window based human-computer interfaces, while leading to dramatic improvements for users with normal vision, is in fact detrimental, and often highly so, to the millions of users who are visually impaired but not blind. Indeed, current trends threaten to widen rather than close the gap between normal and visually impaired users, to the extend that the latter group may soon literally find themselves locked out of the community of users almost entirely. The goal in this research is to prevent this from happening, by developing concepts and implementing a prototype for an alternative to the window-based interfaces of today which will allow the visually handicapped to become first-class computer users.