Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
25 results found tagged VoiceOver.
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A Cisco Education Tool Accessible to the Vision Impaired
This paper describes iNetSim, a universally accessible network simulator developed at Curtin University of Technology to allow vision-impaired and sighted students to complete Cisco Certified Network Associate level 2 (CCNA 2) laboratory sessions. Th…
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Assistive Web Browsing with Touch Interfaces
This demo paper from Stony Brook University proposes a touch-based directional navigation technique to improve web browsing for blind users on touch devices (iPhone, MacBook trackpad). The authors identify two key problems with Apple's VoiceOver touc…
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Tapulator: A Non-Visual Calculator Using Natural Prefix-Free Codes
This demonstration paper presents the Tapulator, a non-visual calculator for smartphones that replaces traditional on-screen buttons with a simple gesture-based numeric entry system using multi-finger taps and swipes. The core innovation is a natural…
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PassChords: Secure Multi-Touch Authentication for Blind People
This paper presents PassChords, a non-visual multi-touch authentication method for blind mobile device users that is resistant to both aural and visual eavesdropping. The research begins with interviews of 13 blind smartphone users (average age 51, r…
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Exploring the Use of Speech Input by Blind People on Mobile Devices
This paper investigates how blind people use speech input on mobile devices through two studies: a survey of 169 participants (64 blind/low-vision, 105 sighted) and a laboratory study with 8 blind participants composing paragraphs on an iPod Touch us…
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Follow That Sound: Using Sonification and Corrective Verbal Feedback to Teach Touchscreen Gestures
This paper proposes and evaluates two techniques for teaching touchscreen gestures to users with visual impairments: gesture sonification (mapping finger position to audio using pitch for the y-axis and stereo panning for the x-axis) and corrective v…
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Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels
This paper from Apple introduces Screen Recognition, a system that automatically generates accessibility metadata for mobile apps by analyzing their visual pixels, enabling screen readers to work with apps that lack proper developer-provided accessib…
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System-class Accessibility: The Architectural Support for Making a Whole System Usable by People with Disabilities
This article introduces the concept of "system-class accessibility" — the architectural support built into an operating system to make the entire platform usable by people with disabilities. Written by Chris Fleizach (who led the development of Voice…
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Expanding a Large Inclusive Study of Human Listening Rates
This study presents the first large-scale, inclusive online investigation of human listening rates for fast synthetic speech, conducted via the LabintheWild crowdsourcing platform over 12 months with 1,409 participants. The research aimed to understa…
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Ally: Understanding Text Messaging to Build a Better Onscreen Keyboard for Blind People
This research presents Ally, a smartphone onscreen keyboard designed specifically for blind users who need to enter text messages when voice input or external keyboards are unavailable. The authors recognized that blind smartphone users employ hetero…