AccessibleMap - Web-Based City Maps for Blind and Visually Impaired
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(Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Wasserburger, [email protected], CEIT ALANOVA – Institute of Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Concorde Business Park 2/F, 2320 Schwechat, Austria, www.ceit.at) (Mag. Julia Neuschmid, [email protected], CEIT ALANOVA – Institute of Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Concorde Business Park 2/F, 2320 Schwechat, Austria, www.ceit.at) (Dipl.-Ing. Manfred Schrenk, [email protected], CEIT ALANOVA – Institute of Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Concorde Business Park 2/F, 2320 Schwechat, Austria, www.ceit.at)
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