Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Computer Anxiety and Interaction: A Systematic Review

  Thiago Donizetti dos Santos, Vagner Figueredo de Santana (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This paper presents a systematic review of 111 papers on Computer Anxiety (CA) in the context of Human-Computer Interaction, synthesising research spanning 1986-2017 across four databases (Springer, ACM, IEEExplore, PubMed). Computer Anxiety is defin…

  • computer anxiety
  • older adults
  • aging
  • digital inclusion
  • self-efficacy
  • accessibility barriers
  • user experience
  • systematic review
  • technology adoption
  • digital divide

• Web Accessibility Evaluation in a Crowdsourcing-Based System with Expertise-Based Decision Strategy

  Shuyi Song, Jiajun Bu, Ye Wang, Zhi Yu, Andreas Artmeier, Lianjun Dai, Can Wang (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This short paper presents a crowdsourcing-based web accessibility evaluation system that addresses the scalability bottleneck in manual accessibility evaluation: expert evaluators are scarce (training takes years) and expensive, yet many WCAG checkpo…

  • web accessibility
  • crowdsourcing
  • accessibility evaluation
  • WCAG
  • automated testing
  • manual evaluation
  • expertise
  • quality assurance
  • China

• Improving Usability of Math Editors

  Neil Soiffer (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This short paper presents an empirical analysis of mathematical symbol usage across US grade 6-12 textbooks to demonstrate that context-aware math editors could dramatically reduce the number of buttons needed for symbol entry, significantly improvin…

  • mathematics accessibility
  • STEM accessibility
  • MathML
  • equation editors
  • screen readers
  • switch access
  • universal design
  • keyboard accessibility
  • visual impairment

• Home Automation for an Independent Living: Investigating the Needs of Visually Impaired People

  Barbara Leporini, Marina Buzzi (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This paper investigates the habits, expectations, and unmet needs of visually impaired people regarding home automation and remote control systems through an online survey of 42 participants (32 totally blind, 10 low vision; ages 18-70+; 64.3% male) …

  • smart home
  • blind
  • visual impairment
  • Internet of Things
  • independent living
  • home automation
  • screen readers
  • voice assistant
  • user research
  • Italy

• DysHelper: The Dyslexia Assistive User Experience

  Tereza Pařilová, Romana Remšíková (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This demonstration paper presents DysHelper, a web browser extension designed to assist people with dyslexia by visually modifying the appearance of web text without altering its content or meaning. The extension addresses the core visual processing …

  • dyslexia
  • browser extension
  • reading accessibility
  • typography
  • web accessibility
  • text adaptation
  • Czech language
  • cognitive accessibility
  • personalization

• Adaptable maps for people with autism

  Claudia De Los Rios Perez, David A. McMeekin, Marita Falkmer, Tele Tan (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This demonstration paper presents a web application that adapts digital maps for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), addressing the fact that mainstream map services like Google Maps are not designed with the needs, limitations, and capabilit…

  • autism
  • maps
  • user interface
  • personalization
  • navigation
  • cognitive accessibility
  • web accessibility
  • transport
  • sensory processing

• A TensorFlow-based Assistive Technology System for Users with Visual Impairments

  Davide Mulfari (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This extended abstract presents a wearable computer vision system that uses deep learning to classify objects in a blind user’s surroundings and provide audio descriptions via text-to-speech. The system addresses a limitation of smartphone-based obje…

  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • blind
  • visual impairment
  • wearable technology
  • object recognition
  • Internet of Things
  • Raspberry Pi
  • museum accessibility
  • TensorFlow

• Towards Language Independent Detection of Dyslexia with a Web-based Game

  Maria Rauschenberger, Luz Rello, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This paper presents MusVis, a web-based game designed to detect dyslexia in children using musical and visual elements that are language independent, potentially enabling screening before children learn to read. Dyslexia affects 5-15% of the world’s …

  • dyslexia
  • screening
  • serious games
  • language independent
  • auditory processing
  • visual perception
  • children
  • learning disabilities
  • early detection
  • phonological awareness

• Application for the configuration and adaptation of the Android operating system for the visually impaired

  Bruna de Oliveira, Juliana Cristina Braga, Rafael J. Pezzuto Damaceno (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This short paper presents the design and preliminary evaluation of an Android application that allows people with visual impairments (PVI) to configure their device’s accessibility settings using voice commands, bypassing the paradoxical problem that…

  • Android
  • visual impairment
  • blind
  • low vision
  • TalkBack
  • voice commands
  • mobile accessibility
  • accessibility settings
  • screen reader
  • Brazil

• Parallel DOM Architecture for Accessible Interactive Simulations

  Taliesin L. Smith, Jesse Greenberg, Sam Reid, Emily B. Moore (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This paper presents the Parallel DOM (PDOM) architecture developed by the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder to make their suite of 140+ free science and mathematics simulations accessible to students with visu…

  • web accessibility
  • interactive simulations
  • screen readers
  • keyboard accessibility
  • WAI-ARIA
  • STEM accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • PhET
  • DOM
  • scene graph
  • alternative input