Literature Reviews

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

• Mozilla Accessibility on Unix/Linux

  Louie Zhao, Jay Yan, Kyle Yuan (2005) — Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper by Sun Microsystems engineers documents the first implementation of accessibility support in Mozilla on Unix/Linux, addressing a significant gap that left disabled users of free operating systems without an accessible web browser. At the t…

  • screen readers
  • keyboard navigation
  • open source
  • Linux accessibility
  • accessibility API
  • browser accessibility
  • assistive technology integration
  • GNOME desktop

• Accessible Blockly: An Accessible Block-Based Programming Library for People with Visual Impairments

  Aboubakar Mountapmbeme, Obianuju Okafor, Stephanie Ludi (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents Accessible Blockly, a prototype library that augments Google's Blockly — the open-source library underlying most mainstream block-based programming environments (Scratch, MakeCode, AppInventor) — with keyboard and screen reader in…

  • block-based programming
  • screen readers
  • keyboard navigation
  • blind programmers
  • computer science education
  • visual impairment
  • WAI-ARIA
  • coding accessibility