Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
80 results found tagged screen reader.
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ADCanvas: Accessible and Conversational Audio Description Authoring for Blind and Low Vision Creators
Li and colleagues tackle a rarely examined corner of accessibility: the fact that the tools used to produce Audio Description (AD) are themselves largely inaccessible to the blind and low-vision (BLV) creators who are often its most skilled practitio…
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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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Linux Screen Reader: Extensible Assistive Technology
This paper presents the Linux Screen Reader (LSR), an open source project from IBM that aimed to create a reusable, extensible development platform for building alternative and supplemental user interfaces on the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike con…
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Lambda: A Multimodal Approach to Making Mathematics Accessible to Blind Students
This paper presents the Lambda System, a European Union-funded project designed to make mathematics accessible to blind students through a multimodal mathematical editor. Mathematics relies heavily on visual two-dimensional notation — fractions are s…
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Wireless Headset Communications for Vision Impaired Persons in Multi-User Environments
This paper addresses a practical workplace accessibility problem: vision impaired persons (VIPs) who work in call centres rely on screen reading software that outputs speech through headsets, but in multi-user environments with many wireless headsets…
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Sparsha: A Comprehensive Indian Language Toolset for the Blind
This paper presents Sparsha ("feeling of touch" in Hindi), the first comprehensive toolset enabling over 13 million visually impaired people in the Indian subcontinent to read and write in their native languages using a computer. Existing Braille tra…
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Audio Enriched Links: Web Page Previews for Blind Users
This paper presents Audio Enriched Links (AEL), a JAWS screen reader extension for Internet Explorer that provides spoken previews of linked web pages before blind users follow a hyperlink. The system addresses a fundamental asymmetry in web browsing…
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Rendering Tables in Audio: The Interaction of Structure and Reading Styles
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of why HTML tables are problematic for screen reader users and proposes two complementary approaches for non-visual table access. The authors from the University of Manchester first characterize what makes…
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Nonvisual Tool for Navigating Hierarchical Structures
This paper presents the Aural Tree Navigator, an Eclipse IDE plug-in that enables blind programmers to navigate hierarchical program structures (such as package explorers, class hierarchies, and file systems) using keyboard commands and speech/sound …
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Semantic Bookmarking for Non-Visual Web Access
This paper introduces semantic bookmarking, a technique for non-visual web access that allows blind users to bookmark meaningful content segments on web pages using domain ontologies rather than structural HTML positions. The research is built on Hea…