Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
123 results found tagged blind users.
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Look Ma, No ARIA: Generic Accessible Interfaces for Web Widgets
This paper proposes an alternative approach to web widget accessibility that bypasses ARIA entirely. Rather than relying on web developers to correctly implement ARIA markup — which is often missing, incorrect, or inconsistent — the system automatica…
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What Not to Wearable: Using Participatory Workshops to Explore Wearable Device Form Factors for Blind Users
This paper documents two participatory design workshops conducted with a team of eight visually impaired adults to explore features and form factors for a wearable navigation device. The research team met monthly over nine months as a "design team," …
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Optimus Web: Selective Delivery of Desktop or Mobile Web Pages
This paper presents Optimus Web, a client-side web proxy system that automatically selects and delivers the most accessible version of a website — either its desktop or mobile representation — to blind users. The system uses QualWeb, an automated acc…
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Understanding Screen Readers' Plugins
This paper presents the first empirical study focused specifically on understanding the ecosystem of screen reader plugins — small pieces of code that extend screen reader functionality. The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 bl…
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Understanding Screen-Reader Users' Experiences with Online Data Visualizations
Data visualizations are ubiquitous on the web, communicating everything from health statistics to financial trends, yet their inherently visual nature creates profound barriers for the approximately 7.6 million screen-reader users in the United State…
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Blind Users Accessing Their Training Images in Teachable Object Recognizers
This paper introduces MYCam, an open-source iOS testbed application designed to help blind users build and improve personalized object recognizers. While teachable object recognizers allow users to train custom models by taking photos of objects they…
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Animations at Your Fingertips: Using a Refreshable Tactile Display to Convey Motion Graphics for People who are Blind or have Low Vision
This paper investigates the potential of refreshable tactile displays (RTDs) to convey animated graphics to people who are blind or have low vision — a capability that has been virtually impossible with traditional static tactile media. While tactile…
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BentoMuseum: 3D and Layered Interactive Museum Map for Blind Visitors
This paper presents BentoMuseum, a novel 3D-printed interactive museum map system designed to help blind visitors independently explore and navigate museum spaces. The system addresses a significant gap in museum accessibility — while museums increas…
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When Headers Are Not There: Design and User Evaluation of an Automatic Topicalisation and Labelling Tool to Aid the Exploration of Web Documents by Blind Users
This paper addresses a fundamental problem for blind screen reader users: what happens when web documents lack proper heading markup, eliminating one of the primary navigation strategies available to them. The researchers designed and evaluated a too…
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Amaze3D: Making 3D Worlds Accessible to Blind Gamers
This extended abstract presents Amaze3D (The Accessibility Maze 3D), a proof-of-concept demonstrating that Unity-based 3D game worlds can be made independently navigable by blind players. Built as a WebGL-based 3D adaptation of an earlier 2D JavaScri…