Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
343 results found tagged screen readers.
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Access to Interpretation: How Formal Cues Ground Interpretive Alt Text for Paintings
This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract examines a gap between mainstream alt text conventions and the interpretive work that paintings are designed to evoke. The authors argue that dominant guidance for alt text foregrounds brevity, objectivity, and functio…
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From Compliance to Decision Confidence: A Scoping Review of Accessible E-Commerce for Blind and Low-Vision People
Ryskeldiev, Gillingham, and Kobori (Mercari R4D and University of Tsukuba) present a scoping review of 21 papers (14 directly about e-commerce accessibility for blind and low-vision (BLV) users, 7 adjacent) published 2010-2025, drawn from ACM DL, Goo…
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"I Don't Trust Any Professional Research Tool": A Re-Imagination of Knowledge Production Workflows by, with, and for Blind and Low-Vision Researchers
This CHI 2026 paper is an autoethnographically-grounded, mixed-methods study of how blind and low-vision (BLV) researchers actually do research inside an ecosystem of tools built with sighted workflows in mind. Written by two BLV researchers (one tot…
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Contextual Scaffolding and Self-Efficacy: Supporting Computer Skill Development among Blind Learners in India
This paper presents a four-month contextual inquiry at two Indian computer training centers serving 94 blind or visually impaired (BVI) students — one urban center in Bengaluru focused on job-oriented ICT training (KEONICS certification) and one rura…
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GeoVisA11y: An AI-based Geovisualization Question-Answering System for Screen-Reader Users
This CHI 2026 paper tackles a long-neglected corner of accessible data visualization: geovisualizations — choropleth maps, dot density maps, and similar spatially encoded displays that pack demographic, environmental, and public-health information in…
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TaskAudit: Detecting Functiona11ity Errors in Mobile Apps via Agentic Task Execution
This CHI 2026 paper introduces TaskAudit, an automated accessibility evaluation system for mobile apps that detects what the authors coin 'functiona11ity errors' — accessibility barriers that only manifest through interaction, where a UI's static sta…
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I'm Always a Little Skeptical of It: Verification Practices of Blind Users When Working with Generative AI in Spreadsheets
This CHI 2026 paper reports a remote study with 12 blind screen reader users (11 totally blind, 1 legally blind) examining how they verify outputs produced by Generative AI tools when working on accuracy-critical spreadsheet tasks. Spreadsheets are p…
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Nonvisual Support for Understanding and Reasoning about Data Structures
Wimer, Kanchi, and colleagues present Arboretum, a web-based system that generates accessible representations of introductory data structure diagrams (arrays and binary trees) for blind and visually impaired (BVI) computer science students. The autho…
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From Struggle to Success: Context-Aware Guidance for Screen Reader Users in Computer Use
Chen, Lu, Wang, Qiu, Chen and Yang present AskEase, an NVDA add-on that delivers on-demand, step-by-step, screen-reader-friendly guidance for blind and low-vision computer users tackling unfamiliar desktop software. The work responds to a persistent …
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SceneScout: Towards AI-Driven Access to Street Level Imagery for Blind Users
Jain, Findlater and Gleason present SceneScout, a prototype web interface that uses a multimodal large language model (GPT-4o) to make street level imagery — the panoramic pedestrian-height photography behind Apple Maps Look Around and Google Street …