Literature Reviews

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

• Touchpad Mapper: Exploring Non-Visual Touchpad Interactions for Screen-Reader Users

  Ather Sharif, Venkatesh Potluri, Jazz R. X. Ang, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Jennifer Mankoff (2024) — Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This technical note introduces Touchpad Mapper, a system that repurposes the laptop touchpad — a widely available but underutilized input device for screen-reader users — as a spatial interface for exploring 2D digital content non-visually. The autho…

  • screen readers
  • blindness
  • touchpad
  • interaction design
  • input devices
  • image exploration
  • video accessibility
  • non-visual interaction

• A Recipe for Success? Exploring Strategies for Improving Non-Visual Access to Cooking Instructions

  Franklin Mingzhe Li, Ashley Wang, Patrick Carrington, Shaun K. Kane (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024)

  This paper investigates how people with vision impairments access and follow cooking recipes, identifying practices, challenges, and design opportunities for more accessible kitchen technologies. The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews w…

  • blind
  • visual impairment
  • cooking accessibility
  • recipe access
  • assistive technology
  • non-visual interaction
  • screen readers
  • hands-free interaction
  • kitchen accessibility
  • multimodal interaction
  • vision rehabilitation

• Exploring Object Status Recognition for Recipe Progress Tracking in Non-Visual Cooking

  Franklin Mingzhe Li, Kaitlyn Ng, Bin Zhu, Patrick Carrington (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents OSCAR (Object Status Context Awareness for Recipes), a technical pipeline that uses object status recognition—tracking the condition and transformation of ingredients and tools—to support recipe progress tracking for blind and low…

  • blind and low vision
  • cooking accessibility
  • context awareness
  • object recognition
  • computer vision
  • vision-language models
  • assistive technology
  • recipe tracking
  • non-visual interaction

• EditScribe: Non-Visual Image Editing with Natural Language Verification Loops

  Ruei-Che Chang, Yuxuan Liu, Lotus Zhang, Anhong Guo (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper introduces EditScribe, a prototype system that makes image editing accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) users through natural language interaction powered by large multimodal models (LMMs). Image editing is inherently visual and iterat…

  • blind and low vision
  • image editing
  • generative AI
  • large multimodal models
  • natural language interaction
  • creativity support
  • visual authoring
  • non-visual interaction