Lessons Learned Building Low-Cost DIY Tactile Graphics and Conducting a Tactile Drawing Club in Colombia During COVID-19

A flat-lay photograph of a desk with a white Cricut Maker cutting machine on the left, a laptop displaying a Vitruvian Man outline, scissors, tape, a green scoring stylus, and two sheets of paper printed with a tactile Vitruvian Man line drawing.
Figure 2: Stencil embossing contour line technique setup showing a Cricut cutting machine and laptop used to produce low-cost DIY tactile graphics during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Abstract
We share lessons learned from building low-cost DIY tactile graphics and running a tactile drawing club in Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The work demonstrates practical approaches to increasing accessibility for blind and low-vision users in resource-constrained settings.
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Maria Fernanda Zuniga-Zabala
John Alexis Guerra Gomez
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Lessons Learned Building Low-Cost DIY Tactile Graphics and Conducting a Tactile Drawing Club in Colombia During COVID-19

Maria Fernanda Zuniga-Zabala and John Alexis Guerra-Gomez. Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2022. DOI: 10.1145/3491101.3503559

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