Welcome and Webinar

Before we get started this month, a reminder to join Dot's June webinar, Developing for Dot Pad X, and discover how innovators across the accessibility community are transforming multiline braille and tactile graphics into practical, engaging applications.

From the AT Guys' browser-based Braille Apps to interactive experiences including chess, checkers, Battleship, Connect 4, calendar tools and more, you'll hear directly from the developers and community leaders bringing these projects to life.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dotinc_dotpadx-braille-multilinebraille-activity-7468614282671222784-GL-a

Join Dot at the US Blind Consumer Conventions

In July you are invited to meet the Dot team and get hands on with Dot Pad X at the NFB and ACB Conventions.

• National Federation of the Blind 86th Annual Convention Austin, Texas July 3 - 8 https://nfb.org/get-involved/national-convention/2026-national-convention-agenda

• American Council of the Blind 65th Annual Conference and Convention St. Louis, MO July 13 - 31, 2026 https://acbconvention.org/

Featured Interview

This month on Raising the dots, we speak with Vítor Carvalho, a researcher with the faculty of engineering at the University of Porto, working to make technical drawings accessible for blind and low vision students and professionals.

Vítor's papers at conferences include:

• Study on memorising technical drawings using eye-gaze analysis to improve their rendering by text-to-speech https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3702163.3702438

• Enabling visually disabled persons to create technical drawings: a review with a preliminary contribution https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3629296.3629363

• Development of accessibility resources for teaching and learning of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9125152?casa_token=qeRVQYXK68gAAAAA:76sCb7qNm5q7A3llPYEdFhjSE_RnOAGGfH7OWNGa3i6GEG3JXeft7r7pkUYfSrCo0hgA2XreIQ

• Automatic description of SVG images for the visually impaired: a Gestaltic approach https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915030896

Related links:

• The Gestalt Principles https://ixdf.org/literature/topics/gestalt-principles

• Goethe’s Theory of Colour (specially part VI - Effect of colour with reference to moral associations) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50572/50572-h/50572-h.htm

Outro

If you have a suggestion for a project you would like to hear featured on a future episode of Raising the Dots drop an email to info@dotincorp.com

Until next time.