Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
343 results found tagged screen readers.
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Exploratory Analysis of Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement
This paper presents a detailed analysis of the Social Accessibility Project, an experimental crowdsourced service from IBM Research-Tokyo that enables volunteers to fix web accessibility problems without requiring site owners to modify their pages. L…
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Identifying Behavioral Strategies of Visually Impaired Users to Improve Access to Web Content
This paper presents a methodology for identifying how visually impaired screen reader users develop coping strategies when encountering inaccessible web content, then uses those strategies to inform the design of transcoding solutions. The researcher…
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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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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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The Tangible Desktop: A Multimodal Approach to Nonvisual Computing
This paper identifies fundamental limitations of audio-only computer interfaces for blind and low-vision users and proposes a multimodal tangible alternative. The researchers conducted a 4-month field study at EmpowerTech, a computer training school …
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An Epidemiology-inspired Large-scale Analysis of Android App Accessibility
This paper presents the largest analysis of Android app accessibility to date, testing 9,999 free apps from the Rico repository for seven distinct accessibility barriers. Drawing on epidemiological methods, the authors frame accessibility barriers as…
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Reviewing Speech Input with Audio: Differences between Blind and Sighted Users
This paper investigates how blind users identify automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors when reviewing dictated text through audio only—a critical yet understudied aspect of speech-based text entry. While speech input is a primary interaction meth…
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Accessible Web Development: Opportunities to Improve the Education and Practice of web Development with a Screen Reader
This paper investigates accessibility barriers faced by blind web developers in both educational and professional contexts. The researchers employed a Comprehensive Literature Review (CLR) methodology—synthesizing academic literature, blog posts by b…
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Expanding a Large Inclusive Study of Human Listening Rates
This study presents the first large-scale, inclusive online investigation of human listening rates for fast synthetic speech, conducted via the LabintheWild crowdsourcing platform over 12 months with 1,409 participants. The research aimed to understa…
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Addressing Accessibility Barriers in Programming for People with Visual Impairments: A Literature Review
This systematic literature review analyzes 70 papers published between 2000-2020 examining accessibility barriers in programming for people with visual impairments and proposed solutions. The review covers both professional programmers and students l…