Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
80 results found tagged screen reader.
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BrowseWithMe: An Online Clothes Shopping Assistant for People with Visual Impairments
This paper from the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Texas at Austin addresses the inaccessibility of online clothes shopping for people with visual impairments through both empirical investigation and a prototype AI-powered assistant…
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Investigating Cursor-based Interactions to Support Non-Visual Exploration in the Real World
This paper from Google and Carnegie Mellon University defines and compares three cursor-based interaction techniques designed to help blind and low vision people attend to specific items within complex real-world visual scenes. While computer vision …
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Interface modeling issues in providing access to GUIs for the visually impaired (panel session)
This Assets '94 panel session brought together three leading researchers to discuss the fundamental challenge of making graphical user interfaces accessible to blind and visually impaired users. By 1994, the computing world was rapidly transitioning …
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Listen to Everything You Want to Read with Capti Narrator
This paper presents Capti Narrator, a cross-platform text-to-speech application developed by Charmtech Labs that enables hands-free consumption of digital content. Unlike traditional screen readers that are tightly coupled to operating system interfa…
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How Cloud Computing Can Support On-Demand Assistive Services
This paper from the University of Messina investigates how cloud computing and virtualisation can provide on-demand assistive technology services for people with disabilities who need to use shared or public computers. The core problem is that when a…
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Haptic Gloves for Audio-Tactile Web Accessibility
This doctoral consortium paper proposes FeelX, a haptic glove system that would enable blind users to explore web page layouts through touch on any flat surface such as a desk or table. The core problem is that screen readers linearise web pages into…
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Math Melodies: Supporting Visually Impaired Primary School Students in Learning Math
This demonstration paper presents Math Melodies, a free iPad application designed to teach mathematics to primary school children who are blind or visually impaired, while simultaneously engaging sighted peers. Mathematics education poses particular …
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Exploring Aural Navigation by Screenless Access
This paper introduces screenless access, a paradigm for browsing aural information architectures using one-handed, in-air gestures recognised by an off-the-shelf Myo armband, freeing blind and visually impaired users from the constraint of holding an…
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Application for the configuration and adaptation of the Android operating system for the visually impaired
This short paper presents the design and preliminary evaluation of an Android application that allows people with visual impairments (PVI) to configure their device’s accessibility settings using voice commands, bypassing the paradoxical problem that…
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GestureCalc: An Eyes-Free Calculator for Touch Screens
This full research paper presents GestureCalc, an eyes-free, target-less gesture-based calculator for touch screens, along with a rigorous three-session longitudinal evaluation with eight screen reader users. The system replaces the spatial button la…