Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
374 results found tagged visual impairment.
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"It's an independent living skill, but covered with fun!": Prompting At-Home Skill Development for Children with Vision Impairment
This study investigates how to design tools that support independent living skill development for blind or visually impaired (BVI) children within their home environments. The research involved five families with BVI children in grades 4-6, using a t…
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"I look at it as the king of knowledge": How Blind People Use and Understand Generative AI Tools
This study investigates how blind individuals use and make sense of mainstream generative AI tools, based on semi-structured interviews with 19 blind participants who regularly use tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and Be …
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Scaffolding Digital Literacy Through Digital Skills Training for Disabled People in the Global South
This paper presents a digital skills training intervention for 138 blind and partially sighted (BPS) and deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people across India and Kenya, grounded in Vygotsky's Scaffolding Theory. The study addresses the digital divide f…
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Breaking the News Barrier: Towards Understanding News Consumption Practices among BVI Individuals in India
This study examines digital news consumption practices among blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals in India, a country home to approximately 4.95 million blind and 35 million visually impaired people. Through semi-structured interviews and co…
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Understanding the Video Content Creation Journey of Creators with Sensory Impairment in Kenya
This paper presents the first in-depth qualitative study of video content creation by people with visual and hearing impairments in a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) context, specifically Kenya. The researchers conducted semi-structured intervi…
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XRMusic4VIP: Enabling Simultaneous Sheet Music Reading and Playing for Visually Impaired Musicians through Extended Reality
This paper addresses a largely unexplored challenge in music accessibility: enabling visually impaired musicians to simultaneously read sheet music and play keyboard instruments. While assistive technologies for visually impaired musicians exist—incl…
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"I can't just Google it": Technology Needs of Adult Braille Learners
This extended abstract investigates the overlooked challenges and technology needs of sighted adults who learn braille, specifically Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments (TVIs) and parents of blind children. While substantial research exists …
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Audio-Based Feedback Techniques for Teaching Touchscreen Gestures
This paper proposes and evaluates two complementary audio-based techniques for teaching touchscreen gestures to blind and low-vision users: gesture sonification (mapping finger position to pitch and stereo panning to create an audio representation of…
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Tactile Graphics with a Voice
This paper presents Tactile Graphics with a Voice (TGV), a system that uses QR codes and a smartphone application to make text labels on tactile graphics accessible to blind and low-vision users — particularly the estimated 60% of blind people who ar…
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Scanning for Digital Content: How Blind and Sighted People Perceive Concurrent Speech
This paper investigates whether blind and sighted people can leverage concurrent speech — multiple audio streams playing simultaneously — to more efficiently scan and identify relevant digital content, exploiting the well-known Cocktail Party Effect.…