Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
374 results found tagged visual impairment.
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Towards Devising a Low-cost and Easy-to-use Arithmetic Learning Framework for Economically Less-privileged Visually Impaired Children
This paper addresses a critical gap in assistive technology: the lack of affordable, easy-to-use tools for teaching arithmetic to visually impaired children in low-income countries. While assistive calculators and digital tools exist, they are prohib…
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Exploring the Needs, Preferences, and Concerns of Persons with Visual Impairments Regarding Autonomous Vehicles
This paper presents two complementary studies exploring the needs, preferences, and concerns of people with visual impairments regarding autonomous vehicles—a technology that could fundamentally transform mobility for those who cannot drive conventio…
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X-Road: Virtual Reality Glasses for Orientation and Mobility Training of People with Visual Impairments
This paper presents X-Road, an affordable and accessible virtual reality system designed for Orientation and Mobility (O&M) training of students with visual impairments. O&M classes teach essential navigation skills like crossing streets, but real-wo…
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Design Guidelines and Recommendations for Multimodal, Touchscreen-based Graphics
This paper presents comprehensive design guidelines for creating accessible graphics on touchscreen devices using vibration and audio feedback for people with visual impairments. Drawing on over eight years of research, the authors address a critical…
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Melodie: A Design Inquiry into Accessible Crafting through Audio-enhanced Weaving
This design inquiry examines accessible crafting through an ethnographic study at a weaving studio within a residential community for adults with vision impairments. The research involved 60 hours of field observations over eight months and 15 semi-s…
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O&M Indoor Virtual Environments for People Who Are Blind: A Systematic Literature Review
This systematic literature review examines virtual environments designed to support indoor orientation and mobility (O&M) training for people who are blind. The authors analyzed 51 papers describing 32 distinct O&M virtual environments, filtering fro…
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VectorEntry: Text Entry Mechanism Using Handheld Touch-Enabled Mobile Devices for People with Visual Impairments
This research develops VectorEntry, a gesture-based text entry system for touchscreen mobile devices designed specifically for people with visual impairments. The authors conducted two preliminary studies to understand how users with visual impairmen…
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Echolocation as a Means for People with Visual Impairment (PVI) to Acquire Spatial Knowledge of Virtual Space
This study investigates whether echolocation—the use of sound reflections to perceive spatial information—can enable people with visual impairment (PVI) to acquire spatial knowledge of virtual environments. The researchers built a virtual world using…
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Experimental Analysis of a Spatialised Audio Interface for People with Visual Impairments
This paper evaluates a spatialised audio interface designed to help people with visual impairments find objects in indoor environments. Part of the ActiVis project, the system uses a Google Project Tango mobile device with RGB-D cameras for localizat…
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Creating Accessible Online Floor Plans for Visually Impaired Readers
This paper presents a generic model for converting online graphics—specifically house floor plans—into accessible formats for blind and severely vision-impaired users. The model supports both fully automatic and semi-automatic transcription, allowing…