Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
74 results found tagged blindness and low vision.
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Camera-Based Closed-Loop Fingertip Deflection Guidance: Pilot Demonstrations in Target Acquisition and Object Retrieval
This CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts poster from the Northwestern/University of Chicago team behind the NURing project presents a camera-enabled evolution of their fingertip-deflection guidance wearable. The authors argue that most eyes-free guidance sys…
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How Multimodal Large Language Models Support Access to Visual Information: A Diary Study With Blind and Low Vision People
This CHI 2026 paper reports a two-week diary study with 20 Blind and Low Vision (BLV) participants (ages 19–75, 11 female/9 male, 13 blind/7 low vision) investigating how multimodal large language models (MLLMs) support real-world access to visual in…
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The ORBIT India Dataset: Understanding the Challenges of Collecting a Disability-First AI Dataset in Low-Resource Environments
This paper introduces ORBIT-India, the first teachable object recognition dataset contributed entirely by people who are blind or have low vision in India. It extends the UK/Canada-collected ORBIT dataset (Massiceti et al., 2021) to the Indian contex…
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Bridging the Gap between Automated Intervention and Actual User Experience: A Mixed-Methods Study on Mobile Accessibility Issues for Screen Reader Users
This CHI 2026 paper by Huq, He, He, and Malek (UC Irvine) argues that existing automated accessibility testing tools for mobile apps do not faithfully represent what blind screen reader users actually experience, and proposes a user-aware categorisat…
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Multi-Perspective Visual Contrastive Decoding for Reliable Assistance
This technical paper presents MPVCD (Multi-Perspective Visual Contrastive Decoding), a framework designed to address the reliability of AI-generated visual descriptions for people who are blind or have low vision (BLV). The core problem it tackles: w…
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Proposing New Metrics to Evaluate Web Usability for the Blind
This four-page CHI '05 extended abstract argues that existing automated accessibility checkers — in 2005 typified by Bobby — had plateaued: they verified the presence of ALT attributes, labels, and markup conformance, yet real blind users still found…
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User Interface of a Nonvisual Table Navigation Method
This two-page CHI '99 late-breaking-results extended abstract addresses a problem that was central to the early accessible web: HTML tables were everywhere — used both for tabular data and, at the time, as a layout device — but talking web browsers r…
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Analysis of Navigability of Web Applications for Improving Blind Usability
This TOCHI article is a two-study investigation into why modern web applications — especially visually dense online shopping sites — remain slow and frustrating for blind users even when they pass automated accessibility checks. The authors argue tha…
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Accessible Photo Album: Enhancing the Photo Sharing Experience for People with Visual Impairment
This paper investigates how blind and partially sighted people can be supported not only in capturing photographs but in organising, recalling, and sharing them afterwards — a step that the authors argue has been largely neglected in prior blind-phot…
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Accessibility Commons: A Metadata Repository for Web Accessibility
This short SIGWEB Newsletter article proposes Accessibility Commons (AC), a shared federated repository for externally authored web-accessibility metadata. The authors argue that accessibility cannot scale as long as fixes depend on the original site…