Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
31 results found tagged document accessibility.
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Leveraging Rich Accessible Documents on the Web
This paper by Lopes and Carriço from the University of Lisbon presents a framework for producing rich accessible documents on the web that goes beyond the common approach of providing simplified alternate versions for disabled users. The authors argu…
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Crowdsourcing Platform for Workplace Accessibility
This paper from IBM Research Tokyo proposes Crowd Card, an intra-organizational crowdsourcing platform designed to improve workplace accessibility while maintaining confidentiality of business materials. The core problem is that modern workplaces are…
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Making Arabic PDF books accessible using gamification
This paper addresses the inaccessibility of Arabic PDF books for people with visual impairments, blindness, and dyslexia. Most online Arabic books are scanned images of printed originals, making them unreadable by screen readers and text-to-speech so…
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Creating accessible PDFs for conference proceedings
This paper investigates the accessibility of PDF research papers published at major ACM conferences related to accessibility and human-computer interaction. The authors conducted a two-part analysis: first, an automated accessibility check of 1,811 p…
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Extraction of Tabular Data from Document Images
This demonstration paper presents an open-source tool for automatically detecting and extracting tabular data from document images — both scanned and digitally created — and converting them into accessible HTML format. The work addresses a significan…
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Subjective Evaluation of Website Accessibility and Usability: A Survey for People with Sensory Disabilities
This paper presents a novel subjective evaluation model for assessing web accessibility and usability from the perspective of students with sensory disabilities, applied to Australian university websites. The model integrates accessibility criteria f…
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X-Ray: Screenshot Accessibility via Embedded Metadata
This paper introduces X-Ray, a system that preserves the accessibility of user interface content when it is captured as a screenshot. Screenshots strip away all semantic information — text structure, element roles, states, labels, and navigation orde…
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Automated Generation of Accessible PDF
This demonstration paper presents AGAP (Automated Generation of Accessible PDF), an open-source tool that automates the generation of accessible PDFs from LaTeX source files while making the authoring process itself accessible to people with vision i…
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Ontology-Driven Transformations for PDF Form Accessibility
This demonstration paper presents TransPAc (Transformations for PDF Form Accessibility), an assistive technology that transforms PDF forms into accessible HTML pages so blind screen-reader users can fill them out. PDF forms present multiple accessibi…
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PDF Readability Enhancement on Mobile Devices
This paper presents PDFroggy, an Android application that applies content transformation techniques to PDF documents on mobile devices to enhance readability. The research addresses a specific gap: while previous work has demonstrated that content tr…