Literature Reviews

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

• Designing Learning Systems to Provide Accessible Services

  Pythagoras Karampiperis, Demetrios Sampson (2005) — Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper addresses the architectural design of web-based learning systems that can deliver accessible educational content to learners with diverse access needs. The authors identify a fundamental problem with how accessible e-learning was being app…

  • e-learning accessibility
  • learning management systems
  • accessible design
  • metadata
  • learning objects
  • assistive technology
  • user preferences

• Overcoming the New Accessibility Challenges Using the Sweet Framework

  Gollapudi VRJ Sai Prasad, T. B. Dinesh, Venkatesh Choppella (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper argues for a broader definition of web accessibility that extends beyond disability to encompass linguistic, socio-cultural, and cognitive barriers faced by all users, a concept the authors call "New Accessibility." The research proposes a…

  • web inclusion
  • crowdsourcing
  • renarration
  • linguistic accessibility
  • cultural accessibility
  • cognitive accessibility
  • metadata
  • collaborative annotation
  • semantic web

• X-Ray: Screenshot Accessibility via Embedded Metadata

  Sujeath Pareddy, Anhong Guo, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

  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…

  • screen readers
  • alternative text
  • screenshots
  • image accessibility
  • metadata
  • document accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • social media accessibility