Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

13 results found tagged JavaScript.

DHTML Accessibility – Solving the JavaScript Accessibility Problem

Becky Gibson, Richard Schwerdtfeger (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

This landmark paper from IBM researchers Becky Gibson and Richard Schwerdtfeger describes the foundational work that would become WAI-ARIA. At the time of writing, JavaScript was used on over 50% of websites, yet no accessibility solution existed for…
How Accessible is the Process of Web Interface Design?

Kirk Norman, Yevgeniy Arber, Ravi Kuber (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '13)

This short paper investigates the accessibility challenges faced by blind web interface developers through interviews with six legally blind participants (all male, aged 29-48) who had experience building websites and online applications. Five used J…
What's New? Making Web Page Updates Accessible

Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Rohit Raman, I. V. Ramakrishnan (2008) — Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

This paper introduces Dynamo, a system that makes dynamic web page content accessible to blind screen reader users by automatically detecting changes across all types of web page updates and providing a unified interface for reviewing them. The paper…
- screen readers
- web accessibility
- dynamic content
- AJAX
- ARIA
- blind users
- DOM
- JavaScript
Making the Web Easier to See with Opportunistic Accessibility Improvement

Jeffrey P. Bigham (2014) — ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

This paper introduces the concept of "opportunistic accessibility improvement" — the idea that accessibility enhancements like magnification should be automatically applied to the maximum extent possible without causing negative side effects. The aut…
Accessibility for Simple to Moderate-Complexity DHTML Web Sites

Cynthia C. Shelly, George Young (2007) — Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

This detailed technical paper from Microsoft provides practical design and coding techniques for making Dynamic HTML and AJAX applications accessible using the browser and assistive technology capabilities available in 2007 — deliberately without rel…
The AccDC Enterprise API for Advanced UI Automation

Bryan Garaventa (2011) — Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

This demo paper presents the AccDC Enterprise API, a JavaScript-based dynamic content management system designed to build Rich Internet Applications with automatic accessibility built in from the ground up. Created by Bryan Garaventa through WhatSock…
Enabling an Accessible Web 2.0

Becky Gibson (2007) — Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A 2007)

This keynote paper from IBM's Becky Gibson examines the accessibility challenges created by the emergence of Web 2.0 and the technologies being developed to address them. Written at a pivotal moment in web history, the paper describes how the shift f…
Accessmonkey: A Collaborative Scripting Framework for Web Users and Developers

Jeffrey P. Bigham, Richard E. Ladner (2007) — Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

This paper introduces Accessmonkey, a JavaScript-based scripting framework that enables web users, developers, and researchers to collaboratively improve web accessibility through client-side page modifications. Built as an extension of the Greasemon…
WebAnywhere: A Screen Reading Interface for the Web on Any Computer

Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig M. Prince, Sangyun Hahn, Richard E. Ladner (2008) — Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

This short paper introduces WebAnywhere, a free web-based screen reader from the University of Washington that enables blind users to access the web from any computer with a standard browser and sound capability, without installing any software. The …
Web Presentation Layer Bootstrapping for Accessibility and Performance

Clint Andrew Hall (2009) — Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

This paper presents the "Web Bootstrapper," a technique for delivering different presentation experiences ("skins") from a single semantic HTML codebase without altering source markup or running costly client-side detection code. The approach address…