Tactile Technical Drawings with Vítor Carvalho

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 [email protected] Until next time.