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An inexpensive sonification system of maps and charts for visually impaired is described. A digitiser (tablet) is used as system’s input device, which helps to investigate the map. The maps are presented using xml technology – mainly svg language tags. Then the maps from svg are converted to RGB bitmap. A system software is based on Microsoft .NET technology. Free Microsoft development systems as Visual C# 2008 Express Edition and Direct Sound are used to implement sonification system.
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Lauruska, V. (2011). New Trends in Non-visual Interaction - Sonification of Maps. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Users Diversity. UAHCI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6766. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21663-3_34
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