Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Accessible Touchscreen Technology for People with Visual Impairments: A Survey
This comprehensive survey reviews the state of the art in touchscreen accessibility for people who are blind or have low vision, covering research from the mid-1990s through 2016. The authors organize the field by input modalities (gestural, voice, s…
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Exploring Auditory Graphing Software in the Classroom: The Effect of Auditory Graphs on the Classroom Environment
This study examines the real-world deployment of GNIE (Graph and Number line Input and Exploration), an auditory graphing software developed by Georgia Tech's Sonification Lab, in a middle school math classroom at the Georgia Academy for the Blind ov…
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Teach or Design? How Older Adults' Use of Ticket Vending Machines Could Be More Effective
This study addresses the "teach or design" debate in accessible technology by comparing two interventions to improve older adults' use of ticket vending machines (TVMs). The research recruited 62 older adults (mean age 68) and 62 younger adults (mean…
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Improving the Accessibility of Mobile OCR Apps Via Interactive Modalities
This paper addresses a critical usability challenge in mobile OCR for blind users: while OCR technology itself works well, it requires properly framed images at adequate resolution—something difficult to achieve without visual feedback. Blind users c…
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Principles for Designing Large-Format Refreshable Haptic Graphics Using Touchscreen Devices: An Evaluation of Nonvisual Panning Methods
This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in touchscreen-based accessibility: how to provide non-visual access to large-format graphical materials like maps that exceed the device's screen size. While touchscreens represent the fastest-growing com…
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Personalized Assistive Web for Improving Mobile Web Browsing and Accessibility for Visually Impaired Users
This paper addresses a critical gap in mobile web accessibility: while screen readers enable blind users to access web content, they do not effectively support skimming—the ability to quickly scan content to find relevant information. The authors pro…
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Vocational Rehabilitation of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Virtual Reality
This paper presents VR4VR, a comprehensive virtual reality system designed to train individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder on transferable job skills. The system addresses a critical employment gap—while 66% of people with disabilities want employ…
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Consistency of a Tactile Pattern Set
This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in tactile graphics production: how to create fill patterns that remain recognizable and distinguishable across different production media with varying resolutions. The three media studied were microcapsul…
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Process Measures of Dyadic Collaborative Interaction for Social Skills Intervention in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This paper presents DOSE (Dyad-Operated Social Encouragement), an open-source collaborative game and data acquisition platform designed for social skills intervention in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The system addresses a gap in e…
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Fast Human-Computer Interaction by Combining Gaze Pointing and Face Gestures
This paper presents FaceSwitch, an open-source multimodal accessibility system that combines eye gaze tracking for cursor positioning with facial gesture recognition for triggering actions. The system addresses limitations of existing gaze-based inte…