Literature Reviews

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

• "I stepped into a puddle": Non-Visual Texting in Nomadic Contexts

  Pegah Karimi, Erin Brady, Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Davide Bolchini (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A '23)

  This study investigates the under-explored practice of texting by people who are blind and visually impaired (BVI) while navigating outdoors — what the authors term "nomadic contexts." While previous research has examined accessible text entry method…

  • blind and low vision
  • text entry
  • mobile accessibility
  • navigation
  • assistive technology
  • touchscreen accessibility
  • VoiceOver
  • speech recognition
  • situational awareness
  • public transportation
  • independent living

• ChartA11y: Designing Accessible Touch Experiences of Visualizations with Blind Smartphone Users

  Zhuohao Zhang, John R. Thompson, Aditi Shah, Manish Agrawal, Alper Sarikaya, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Edward Cutrell, Bongshin Lee (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024)

  This paper presents ChartA11y, an iOS mobile application that makes 2-D data visualizations accessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) smartphone users through multimodal touch interactions. Developed through an iterative participatory design process i…

  • data visualization
  • blind and low vision
  • touchscreen accessibility
  • sonification
  • multimodal interaction
  • participatory design
  • smartphone accessibility