Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Representing Coordination and Non-Coordination in an American Sign Language Animation

  Matt Huenerfauth (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper introduces the Partition/Constitute (P/C) Formalism, a new computational representation for encoding the multichannel structure of American Sign Language (ASL) performances to support English-to-ASL machine translation and animation. ASL i…

  • American Sign Language
  • sign language animation
  • machine translation
  • natural language processing
  • deaf accessibility
  • signing avatar
  • multimodal generation
  • gesture generation

• A Wearable Face Recognition System for Individuals with Visual Impairments

  Sreekar Krishna, Greg Little, John Black, Sethuraman Panchanathan (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper presents the iCare Interaction Assistant, a wearable face recognition system developed at Arizona State University's Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) to help people who are visually impaired identify individuals during soc…

  • face recognition
  • wearable computing
  • blindness
  • computer vision
  • social interaction
  • assistive technology
  • visual impairment

• Research-Derived Web Design Guidelines for Older People

  Sri Kurniawan, Panayiotis Zaphiris (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper develops and validates a set of research-derived, ageing-centred web design guidelines through a rigorous multi-stage process. The authors began with an extensive literature review of HCI and ageing research, producing an initial set of 52…

  • older adults
  • web design guidelines
  • aging
  • usability
  • accessibility evaluation
  • heuristic evaluation
  • cognitive accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • motor impairment

• How to Operate a PC Without Using the Hands

  Torsten Felzer, Rainer Nordmann (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This demo paper presents HaMCoS (Hands-free Mouse Control System), a biosignal interface developed at Darmstadt University of Technology that enables people with severe physical disabilities to operate a Windows PC using intentional contractions of a…

  • biosignal interface
  • EMG
  • hands-free operation
  • mouse emulation
  • motor disability
  • alternative input
  • assistive technology
  • muscle control

• MathPlayer: Web-Based Math Accessibility

  Neil Soiffer (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This poster paper presents MathPlayer, a free plug-in for Microsoft Internet Explorer developed by Design Science Inc. that renders MathML (Mathematical Markup Language) visually in web pages and makes mathematical expressions accessible to people wi…

  • mathematical accessibility
  • MathML
  • screen readers
  • print disability
  • learning disabilities
  • braille
  • STEM accessibility
  • web accessibility

• Emerging Issues, Solutions & Challenges from the Top 20 Issues Affecting Web Application Accessibility

  David Hoffman, Lisa Battle (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This poster paper presents the results of a second in-depth analysis of hundreds of accessibility issues documented across real web application projects at the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), compared with findings from a prior study of ov…

  • web accessibility
  • accessibility evaluation
  • accessibility barriers
  • design patterns
  • web applications
  • keyboard accessibility
  • screen readers

• User Modeling for Individuals with Disabilities: A Pilot Study of Word Prediction

  Abhishek Agarwal, Richard Simpson (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This short paper describes the development of user models that predict how word prediction (WP) systems affect text entry performance for individuals with disabilities. The research addresses a practical clinical problem: clinicians who assess assist…

  • word prediction
  • user modeling
  • assistive technology
  • text entry
  • eye tracking
  • keystroke savings
  • AAC

• Programmer-Focused Website Accessibility Evaluations

  Chris Law, Julie Jacko, Paula Edwards (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper argues that accessibility evaluation and reporting processes have historically focused on the needs of end-users with disabilities while overlooking the actual audience for evaluation reports: the programmers who must implement the fixes. …

  • accessibility evaluation
  • web accessibility
  • accessibility reporting
  • developer tools
  • organizational accessibility
  • WCAG
  • automated testing

• The Information-Theoretic Analysis of Unimodal Interfaces and their Multimodal Counterparts

  Melanie Baljko (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper applies Shannon Information Theory to formally analyse and quantify the hypothesised benefits of multimodal interfaces over unimodal ones, with particular focus on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices such as Voice Outp…

  • multimodal interfaces
  • AAC
  • information theory
  • voice output communication aids
  • speech generating devices
  • interface evaluation
  • communication disorders

• SmartColor: Disambiguation Framework for the Colorblind

  Ken Wakita, Kenta Shimamura (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper presents SmartColor, a framework that automatically repaints coloured documents so that people with colour vision deficiencies can perceive the same colour effects — such as contrast, shared colour grouping, and distinguishability — that t…

  • color blindness
  • color accessibility
  • color contrast
  • data visualization
  • constraint systems
  • recoloring
  • visual accessibility