Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
17 results found tagged text simplification.
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Cognitively Motivated Features for Readability Assessment
Feng, Elhadad, and Huenerfauth (2009) develop and evaluate an automatic readability-assessment tool targeted specifically at adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) — people in the 'mild' category (IQ 55-70), who comprise roughly 3% of the U.S. po…
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A Comparison of Features for Automatic Readability Assessment
Feng et al. (2010) is a computational-linguistics paper that compares a wide variety of text features for automatically predicting the grade level of reading material aimed at primary-school students. The motivation is both intrinsic — traditional re…
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Helping Aphasic People Process Online Information
This short paper from the University of Sunderland describes the HAPPI (Helping Aphasic People Process Information) project, a web-based text simplification system designed to help people with aphasia access online content such as news stories. Aphas…
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Comparing Evaluation Techniques for Text Readability Software for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
This paper investigates how to properly evaluate text simplification software designed for adults with mild intellectual disabilities (ID). The authors are developing a system that automatically simplifies news articles, displays them, and reads them…
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Multimodal Summarization of Complex Sentences
This paper introduces the concept of multimodal summarization (MMS) for complex sentences — automatically generating diagrams that combine pictures, simplified compressed text, and structural layout to help people understand difficult text. The syste…
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Making It Simplext: Implementation and Evaluation of a Text Simplification System for Spanish
This paper presents Simplext, the first comprehensive automatic text simplification (ATS) system for Spanish. The research addresses a fundamental accessibility barrier: textual content written in complex language excludes people with cognitive disab…
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Accessible Texts for Autism: An Eye-Tracking Study
This pioneering study is the first to use eye-tracking technology with autistic participants to evaluate text document accessibility. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder experience difficulties with reading comprehension—including processing complex…
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Adapting web content for low-literacy readers by using lexical elaboration and named entities labeling
This paper presents Educational FACILITA, a browser-based tool that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to automatically adapt web content for low-literacy readers. Developed at the University of São Paulo as part of the PorSimples text simplifica…
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DysWebxia 2.0! More Accessible Text for People with Dyslexia
This demo paper introduces DysWebxia 2.0, a model for making text more accessible to people with dyslexia by modifying both the presentation and content of text. The project is notable for being the first model to combine text presentation changes (f…
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Simplify or Help? Text Simplification Strategies for People with Dyslexia
This paper evaluates two automatic lexical simplification strategies designed to make text more accessible for people with dyslexia. The research addresses a key gap: while previous tools for dyslexic readers focused on text presentation (fonts, spac…