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.