Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
374 results found tagged visual impairment.
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GraSSML: Accessible Smart Schematic Diagrams for All
This paper addresses a persistent gap in web accessibility: making schematic diagrams (organizational charts, flowcharts, UML diagrams, etc.) accessible to people who cannot perceive visual representations. While previous approaches tried to work "bo…
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Quantitative Evaluation for Web Accessibility with Respect to Disabled Groups
This paper proposes a methodology for evaluating web accessibility that goes beyond standard WCAG conformance levels to assess suitability for specific disability groups, particularly vision-impaired and hearing-impaired users. The authors argue that…
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Experiential Transcoding: An EyeTracking Approach
This paper introduces "experiential transcoding" — a user-centred approach to web page transformation that uses eye-tracking data from sighted users to understand how people actually experience web pages, then uses those patterns to guide transcoding…
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Prediction of Web Page Accessibility Based on Structural and Textual Features
This paper from NC State University explores whether machine learning classifiers can predict the accessibility of web pages based on structural and textual features of their DOM — features that are independent of explicit accessibility markup like a…
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User Individuality Management in Websites Based on WAI-ARIA Annotations and Ontologies
This paper presents a comprehensive system for automatically adapting websites to individual users' accessibility needs using WAI-ARIA-based annotations and an ontology that models users, adaptation techniques, and their relationships. Unlike previou…
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Providing Access to the High-Level Content of Line Graphs from Online Popular Media
This paper extends the Interactive SIGHT (Summarizing Information Graphics Textually) system to generate natural language summaries of line graphs found in online popular media articles, making their high-level content accessible to visually impaired…
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Towards the Usage of Pauses in Audio-Described Videos
This paper explores the use of "artificial pauses" — brief interruptions inserted into video playback — as a technique for delivering audio descriptions that cannot fit within the natural gaps in a video's soundtrack. Classical audio description is c…
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A Mobile Interactive Maps Application for a Visually Impaired Audience
This demo paper presents "Open Touch/Sound Maps," an Android mobile application that makes interactive maps accessible to visually impaired and blind users through multimodal feedback. Web-based spatial information resources like OpenStreetMap are in…
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Marker-based image recognition of dynamic content for the visually impaired
This paper from IBM Research Brazil introduces a marker-based image recognition technique to help visually impaired people access information displayed on public panels and boards with fixed layouts but dynamic content — such as vending machines, spl…
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Marker-Assisted Recognition of Dynamic Content in Public Spaces
This paper from IBM Research Brazil presents an image processing system that helps visually impaired and situationally disabled people (such as tourists in foreign countries) recognize dynamic content displayed on public information boards. The syste…