@inproceedings{BuchweitzTheilGayetal.2020, author = {Lea Buchweitz and Arthur Theil and James Gay and Oliver Korn}, title = {Exploring Low-Cost Materials to Make Pattern-Based Lock-Screens Accessible for Users with Visual Impairments or Deafblindness}, series = {Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS ’20)}, editor = {Tiago Guerreiro and Hugo Nicolau and Karyn Moffatt}, publisher = {ACM Press}, address = {New York}, organization = {Association for Computing Machinery}, isbn = {978-1-4503-7103-2}, doi = {10.1145/3373625.3418020}, pages = {Artikel 69}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Nowadays, the wide majority of Europeans uses smartphones. However, touch displays are still not accessible by everyone. Individuals with deafblindness, for example, often face difculties in accessing vision-based touchscreens. Moreover, they typically have few fnancial resources which increases the need for customizable, low-cost assistive devices. In this work-in-progress, we present four prototypes made from low-cost, every-day materials, that make modern pattern lock mechanisms more accessible to individuals with vision impairments or even with deafblindness. Two out of four prototypes turned out to be functional tactile overlays for accessing digital 4-by-4 grids that are regularly used to encode dynamic dot patterns. In future work, we will conduct a user study investigating whether these two prototypes can make dot-based pattern lock mechanisms more accessible for individuals with visual impairments or deafblindness.}, language = {en} }