Literature Reviews

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

• Authoring Web-accessible Mathematical Diagrams

  David Austin, Volker Sorge (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This extended abstract presents an XML-based authoring language for creating web-accessible mathematical diagrams, designed to integrate with PreTeXt, a tool for producing accessible scholarly documents. While text and mathematical formulas in LaTeX …

  • STEM accessibility
  • mathematical diagrams
  • SVG accessibility
  • screen readers
  • sonification
  • tactile graphics
  • document accessibility
  • authoring tools

• DescribePro: Collaborative Audio Description with Human-AI Interaction

  Maryam S Cheema, Sina Elahimanesh, Samuel Martin, Pooyan Fazli, Hasti Seifi (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents DescribePro, a web-based platform that combines human expertise with AI capabilities to create and refine audio descriptions (AD) for video content. The system addresses the fundamental tension in AD production: human-crafted desc…

  • audio description
  • video accessibility
  • human-AI collaboration
  • authoring tools
  • blind and low vision
  • large language models
  • personalization
  • collaborative editing
  • multimodal AI