Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Accessible Blockly: An Accessible Block-Based Programming Library for People with Visual Impairments
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…
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Creating 3D Printed Assistive Technology Through Design Shortcuts: Leveraging Digital Fabrication Services to Incorporate 3D Printing into the Physical Therapy Classroom
This paper investigates how to integrate 3D printing into physical therapy (PT) education without requiring PT students to become experts in CAD or digital fabrication. Previous research showed that while 3D printing has great potential for creating …
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Where Are You Taking Me? Reflections from Observing Ridesharing Use By People with Visual Impairments
This paper presents a methodological case study of conducting quasi-naturalistic observations of 17 blind or visually impaired participants using the Uber ridesharing service. Rather than reporting substantive findings about ridesharing accessibility…
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FootUI: Designing and Detecting Foot Gestures to Assist People with Upper Body Motor Impairments to Use Smartphones on the Bed
This paper presents FootUI, a vision-based interaction technique that enables people with upper body motor impairments but sound lower limbs to use smartphones through foot gestures while reclining on a bed. The system uses the phone's front-facing c…
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The story behind Dytective: how we brought research results on dyslexia and accessibility to Spanish public schools
This invited talk paper presents the decade-long research and entrepreneurial journey behind Dytective, a platform that combines machine learning and gamified exercises to detect risk of dyslexia and provide personalized interventions. Dyslexia affec…
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Toward supporting quality alt text in computing publications
This paper investigates the state of alternative text for figures in computing research publications, an understudied context where figures often convey dense, complex visual information quite different from social media or news imagery. The research…
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Teaching accessibility as a shared endeavour: building capacity across academic and workplace contexts
This short paper reports on qualitative research with 30 expert accessibility educators from academia and the workplace, drawn from a larger study called "Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set" (2019-2024). Using expert panel method — a par…
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For one or for all? Survey of educator perceptions of Web Speech-based auditory description in science interactives
This paper investigates how educators perceive a Web Speech API-based auditory description feature called Voicing, implemented in two PhET Interactive Simulations (John Travoltage and Gravity Force Lab: Basics) used globally for science education. Un…
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IMAGE: A Deployment Framework for Creating Multimodal Experiences of Web Graphics
This short paper from McGill University introduces IMAGE (Internet Multimodal Access to Graphical Exploration), an open-source framework for converting web graphics into accessible multimodal outputs including audio, haptic, and text representations …
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The Use of ADKAR to Instil Change in the Accessibility of University Websites
This short paper applies the ADKAR change management model — Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement — to understand what interventions are needed to improve web accessibility at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland. The a…