Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
123 results found tagged blind users.
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Crowdsourcing Subjective Fashion Advice Using VizWiz: Challenges and Opportunities
This paper investigates the accessibility barriers that fashion and clothing present to people with vision impairments, and explores whether crowdsourcing through VizWiz can provide useful subjective fashion advice. The research is grounded in the re…
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Using Real-time Feedback to Improve Visual Question Answering
This work-in-progress paper introduces Legion:View, a system that extends the VizWiz model of crowd-powered visual question answering by adding a real-time feedback loop between blind users and crowd workers. The original VizWiz allowed blind users t…
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WebAnywhere: A Screen Reader On-the-Go
This demonstration paper introduces WebAnywhere, a web-based, self-voicing screen reader that enables blind users to access the web from any computer with a standard browser and sound output, without needing to install specialized software. The paper…
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Visual Challenges in the Everyday Lives of Blind People
This paper presents the findings of a year-long large-scale study of VizWiz Social, an iPhone application that allows blind users to take a photograph, record a spoken question about it, and receive answers from crowd workers or social contacts withi…
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Supporting Blind Photography
This paper explores how blind and low-vision people use cameras and presents two applications designed to make photography more accessible. The research begins with a large-scale online survey of 118 blind and low-vision people that establishes the e…
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Trailblazer: Enabling Blind Users to Blaze Trails Through the Web
This paper introduces TrailBlazer, a system designed to help blind web users complete tasks more efficiently by providing step-by-step guidance through web pages. The core problem it addresses is that blind users relying on screen readers must often …
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Investigating the Appropriateness of Social Network Question Asking as a Resource for Blind Users
This paper explores whether social networking sites (SNSs) are a viable alternative to paid crowdsourcing for answering blind users' visual questions. The research combines three methods: a survey of 191 blind adults about their social networking hab…
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VizLens: A Robust and Interactive Screen Reader for Interfaces in the Real World
This paper introduces VizLens, a system that functions as a screen reader for physical interfaces in the real world, enabling blind people to independently use inaccessible appliances like microwaves, thermostats, kiosks, and checkout terminals. VizL…
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Facade: Auto-generating Tactile Interfaces to Appliances
This paper introduces Facade, a crowdsourced fabrication pipeline that enables blind people to independently make flat-panel appliance interfaces accessible by generating 3D-printed tactile button overlays. The problem addressed is that modern applia…
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"With most of it being pictures now, I rarely use it": Understanding Twitter's Evolving Accessibility to Blind Users
This multi-method study examines how blind people use Twitter and the accessibility barriers they face as the platform shifts from text-based to increasingly image-heavy content. The researchers combined an online survey of 132 blind Twitter users, l…