Abstract

• Although technology is rapidly developing, mobile applications are difficult to use for visually impaired people. The potential of technology to give invaluable support for people with visual impairments remains unexplored especially accessing the advanced functions of a smart phone is not a trivial task for them. Currently, visually impaired users rely on screen readers and voice commands to discover and execute functions on smartphones. Despite its common use, screen readers are not convenient in public places because of continuous read out functions. Also, voice commands are difficult for a system to recognize in noisy environments. Therefore, visually impaired people are unable to fully access advanced smartphone functions until now. In this paper, to increase the accessible rate, marking menu is implemented as an assistive interface for visually impaired people.