BlindSense: An Accessibility-inclusive Universal User Interface for Blind People

A large number of blind people use smartphone-based assistive technology to perform their common activities. In order to provide a better user experience the existing user interface paradigm needs to be revisited. A simplified, semantically consistent, and blind-friendly adaptive user interface model is proposed. The proposed solution is evaluated through an empirical study on 63 blind people leveraging an improved user experience in performing common activities on a smartphone