Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Wireless Headset Communications for Vision Impaired Persons in Multi-User Environments
This paper addresses a practical workplace accessibility problem: vision impaired persons (VIPs) who work in call centres rely on screen reading software that outputs speech through headsets, but in multi-user environments with many wireless headsets…
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Indirect Text Entry Using One or Two Keys
This paper introduces a new descriptive model for indirect text entry — text composition methods where the number of input devices (switches) is significantly smaller than the number of selectable characters. This is the primary text entry paradigm f…
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Hardware-Based Text-to-Braille Translator
This paper describes the implementation of a text-to-Braille translator in hardware using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), as an alternative to the software-based translators that dominate the market. The translator implements Paul Blenkhorn's…
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Facetop Tablet: Note-Taking Assistance for Deaf Persons
This paper presents Facetop Tablet, a system designed to assist deaf and hard of hearing people in taking notes during meetings, lectures, and group activities. The core problem is that deaf users who rely on sign language interpreters face a constan…
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Designing Auditory Displays to Facilitate Object Localization in Virtual Haptic 3D Environments
This paper investigates five different auditory display designs to help blind users locate objects in a virtual haptic 3D environment explored with a PHANToM Desktop haptic device. While haptic devices give visually impaired users the ability to expl…
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Functional Web Accessibility Techniques and Tools from the University of Illinois
This paper presents two complementary tools developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for helping web developers create functionally accessible websites: the CITES/DRES Functional Web Accessibility Best Practices and associated eval…
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A Demonstration of the iCARE Portable Reader
This paper presents the portable iCARE Reader, an assistive device developed at Arizona State University that allows people who are blind or visually impaired to read printed text more naturally and conveniently than existing flatbed scanner-based re…
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Designing Assistive Technology for Blind Users
This paper reports on an observational and interview case study of a congenitally blind college student (pseudonym Sara) conducted in her home to develop design insights for improving interactions between blind users and everyday technological artifa…
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A Mixed Method for Evaluating Input Devices with Older Persons
This exploratory study introduces a mixed evaluation method for assessing common input devices used by older persons. The author argues that traditional input device studies rely too heavily on experimental tasks like Fitts's Law pointing tests, whic…
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Designing a Scripting Language to Help the Blind Program Visually
This paper addresses the significant barrier that GUI-based programming environments pose for blind programmers. While programming was historically one of the more accessible professions for blind individuals — with the American Federation for the Bl…