Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
249 results found tagged mobile accessibility.
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The Feasibility of Eyes-Free Touchscreen Keyboard Typing
This poster paper proposes a novel approach to eyes-free touchscreen typing where users imagine a QWERTY keyboard somewhere on the device and tap out an entire sentence without seeing the keyboard and without receiving any intermediate feedback about…
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Exploring the Use of Speech Input by Blind People on Mobile Devices
This paper investigates how blind people use speech input on mobile devices through two studies: a survey of 169 participants (64 blind/low-vision, 105 sighted) and a laboratory study with 8 blind participants composing paragraphs on an iPod Touch us…
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How Power Wheelchair Users Choose Computing Devices
This poster paper explores how power wheelchair users select and use computing devices in their daily lives. The researchers interviewed 8 power wheelchair or power scooter users (4 male, 4 female) through semi-structured interviews lasting up to two…
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Follow That Sound: Using Sonification and Corrective Verbal Feedback to Teach Touchscreen Gestures
This paper proposes and evaluates two techniques for teaching touchscreen gestures to users with visual impairments: gesture sonification (mapping finger position to audio using pitch for the y-axis and stereo panning for the x-axis) and corrective v…
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What Health Topics Older Adults Want to Track: A Participatory Design Study
This paper presents a participatory design study investigating what health topics older adults (aged 65+) want to track using mobile health (mHealth) applications. The authors argue that most mHealth app developers fail to conduct needs assessments w…
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VBGhost: A Braille-Based Educational Smartphone Game for Children
This short paper presents VBGhost, an accessible educational smartphone game for blind and low vision children that reinforces Braille literacy through gameplay. The game is based on Ghost, a word-building game where players take turns adding letters…
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Slide Rule: Making Mobile Touch Screens Accessible to Blind People Using Multi-Touch Interaction Techniques
This paper introduces Slide Rule, a set of audio-based multi-touch interaction techniques that make touch screen devices accessible to blind users without requiring any additional hardware. Published in 2008 — just one year after the iPhone launched …
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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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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…