Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
60 results found tagged eye tracking.
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Identifying Visual Cues to Improve Independent Indoor Navigation for Blind Individuals
This student research competition paper proposes a novel approach to indoor navigation for blind individuals that focuses on providing environmental awareness and a "sense of space" rather than traditional point-to-point directions. The author argues…
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Gaze Typing using Multi-key Selection Technique
This student research competition paper presents a multi-key selection technique for gaze typing that significantly speeds up text input for people with extreme motor disabilities such as full body paralysis. Traditional gaze typing uses dwell time —…
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Tailored presentation of dynamic content
This paper presents the SASWAT browser, a research prototype built as a self-voicing extension to Firefox (based on Fire Vox), designed to address a fundamental challenge of the Web 2.0 era: how should screen readers notify users about dynamic page u…
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Audio Presentation of Auto-Suggest Lists
This paper investigates how to make auto-suggest lists (ASLs) — the dropdown suggestions that appear as users type in search boxes and form fields — accessible through audio for visually impaired users. Part of the SASWAT (Structured Accessibility St…
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Audio Access to Calendars
This paper addresses a specific but widespread accessibility problem: pop-up calendar date pickers on the web are effectively unusable by people with visual impairments. These JavaScript widgets dynamically insert tabular calendar content into the pa…
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How People Use Presentation to Search for a Link: Expanding the Understanding of Accessibility on the Web
This paper uses eye-tracking to investigate a fundamental question about web accessibility: what exactly does visual presentation provide to sighted users that is lost when content is accessed nonvisually (via screen readers) or on small screens? The…
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Using galvanic skin response measures to identify areas of frustration for older web 2.0 users
This paper investigates how older web users experience stress and frustration when interacting with Web 2.0 dynamic content, using galvanic skin response (GSR) measurements combined with eye-tracking data. GSR is a physiological indicator that measur…
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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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Layout Guidelines for Web Text and a Web Service to Improve Accessibility for Dyslexics
This paper presents evidence-based layout guidelines for making web text more readable for people with dyslexia, derived from a user study with 22 dyslexic participants and a matched control group. The study is notable for being the first to combine …
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Size Matters (Spacing Not): 18 Points for a Dyslexic-Friendly Wikipedia
This paper investigates the effect of font size and line spacing on readability and comprehension for people with dyslexia, tested in the real-world context of Wikipedia articles rather than isolated text samples. The authors conducted an eye-trackin…