Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
123 results found tagged blind users.
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Accessible Web Automation Interface: A User Study
This doctoral consortium paper presents the evaluation of two web automation user interfaces designed to help blind and low-vision screen reader users complete web browsing tasks more efficiently. The fundamental problem is that while the web has bec…
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Learning Non-Visual Graphical Information Using a Touch-Based Vibro-Audio Interface
This paper evaluates a vibro-audio interface on a commercial Samsung Galaxy tablet that provides non-visual access to graphical information through synchronized vibration and audio feedback triggered by touch exploration. When users trace their finge…
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Helping Visually Impaired Users Properly Aim a Camera
This paper evaluates three interaction modes for helping visually impaired users aim a camera to achieve good photo composition: speech-based feedback (spoken directional words like "up", "down", "left", "right" with pitch indicating proximity), tone…
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FEPS: A Sensory Substitution System for the Blind to Perceive Facial Expressions
This demonstration paper presents FEPS (Facial Expression Perception through Sound), a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution system that enables blind individuals to perceive their conversation partner's facial expressions through sound. The inabil…
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Specialized DVD Player to Render Audio Description and Its Usability Performance
This demonstration paper presents the CRIM DVDPlayer, a specialized software DVD player designed to enhance the audio description (AD) experience for blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. Developed at the Centre de Recherche Informatique de …
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Accessible Skimming: Faster Screen Reading of Web Pages
This doctoral consortium paper presents an automated approach to enable non-visual skimming of web pages for screen reader users. Sighted people routinely skim web content through quick eye movements (saccades) that let them glance over headlines and…
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Back Navigation Shortcuts for Screen Reader Users
This paper introduces two novel back navigation strategies — topic-based back and list-based back — designed to make backtracking through previously visited web pages dramatically more efficient for screen reader users. The fundamental problem is tha…
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Do You See What I See? Designing a Sensory Substitution Device to Access Non-Verbal Modes of Communication
This paper presents iFEPS (improved Facial Expression Perception through Sound), a visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device that enables blind users to perceive their conversation partner's facial expressions through audio feedback. Research su…
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UbiBraille: Designing and Evaluating a Vibrotactile Braille-Reading Device
This paper presents UbiBraille, a wearable vibrotactile device that enables blind users to read textual information privately and inconspicuously by leveraging their existing knowledge of Braille. The device consists of six small vibration motors att…
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Touchplates: Low-Cost Tactile Overlays for Visually Impaired Touch Screen Users
This paper introduces touchplates — inexpensive, unpowered, customizable tactile overlays that can be placed on touch screens to provide physical guides and tactile feedback for blind and visually impaired users. Unlike prior approaches that either o…