Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
374 results found tagged visual impairment.
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The Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Descriptions
The vast majority of online video content remains inaccessible to people with visual impairments because it lacks audio descriptions — verbal commentaries that depict visual information in scenes. Professional audio description services cost US$12 to…
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VStroll: An Audio-based Virtual Exploration to Encourage Walking among People with Vision Impairments
People with visual impairments (PVIs) engage in significantly less physical exercise than sighted adults, with 1.5 times higher odds of obesity. Barriers include inaccessible infrastructure, parental discouragement due to safety concerns, lack of wal…
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Auditory feedback to compensate audible instructions to support people with visual impairment
This doctoral consortium extended abstract addresses a practical challenge faced by people with visual impairments who rely on auditory feedback from mobile devices: background noise in real-world mobility contexts can mask device audio output, degra…
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How Teachers of the Visually Impaired Compensate with the Absence of Accessible Block-Based Languages
This paper reports on an interview study with twelve teachers of K-12 students with visual impairments (TVIs) across the United States, investigating how they navigate the lack of fully accessible block-based programming environments. Block-based pro…
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"It is fascinating to make these beasts fly": Understanding Visually Impaired People's Motivations and Needs for Drone Piloting
This paper investigates the motivations, interests, and accessibility needs of blind and visually impaired (BVI) people regarding drone piloting. While drones have been explored as assistive tools for BVI users — helping with navigation, obstacle det…
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Improving Mealtime Experiences of People with Visual Impairments
This paper investigates the mealtime challenges faced by people with visual impairments (PVI) and explores how assistive technology can support more independent dining experiences. While most accessibility research for PVI has focused on navigation a…
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Multi-touch Exploration and Sonification of Line Segments
This paper presents SoundLines, a mobile app designed to help children with visual impairments develop spatial exploration skills through touchscreen interaction coupled with audio (sonification) feedback. The app is structured as a game where a kitt…
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AccessComics: An Accessible Digital Comic Book Reader for People with Visual Impairments
This paper from Ewha Womans University in Seoul presents AccessComics, a web-based accessible digital comic book reader for people with visual impairments (PVI). Comics are a popular medium available on many digital platforms, yet almost none support…
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WordMelodies: an Inclusive Mobile App Supporting the Acquisition of Literacy Skills
This paper presents WordMelodies, a cross-platform mobile edutainment application designed for inclusive literacy education for primary school children with and without visual impairments or blindness (VIB). The app was motivated by a teacher of chil…
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LaTeX as an Inclusive Accessibility Instrument for Highschool Mathematical Education
This paper reports on the design, implementation, and outcomes of a teaching activity in an Italian high school that used LaTeX typesetting language as an inclusive tool for mathematical education. The project was designed to support "Cristina" (pseu…