Making VRML Accessible

This page is dedicated to provide information and tools to help construct VRML worlds accessible to people with disabilities.

Accessible VRML Worlds

• The Audible Factory
• The Talking Miter Saw

VRML Accessibility Tools

• showVP - a ViewPoint creation .wrl file
• addSndToVrml - a tool to aid in the addition of SoundNodes
• speakWorldInfo - utility to feed textual descriptions from WordInfo Nodes to a speech synthesizer

Paper - Making VRML Accessible for People with Disabilities by Sandy Ressler and Qiming Wang to Appear in Proceeding of ASSETS 98. [(PDF 273K)] [HTML]

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