Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
94 results found tagged navigation.
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Application of Content Adaptation in Web Accessibility for the Blind
This paper proposes transforming web pages into hierarchical, numbered menu structures — modeled on Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS) — so blind users can navigate content by pressing number keys rather than listening sequentially through ent…
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Can a Blind Person Understand Your World?
This keynote paper by Chieko Asakawa of IBM Research presents a vision for the next frontier of accessibility for blind people: moving from digital information access to real-world understanding through cognitive computing. Asakawa charts the exponen…
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Accessibility and Smart Data: the Case Study of mPASS
This doctoral consortium paper presents mPASS (mobile Pervasive Accessibility Social Sensing), a research project from the University of Bologna that applies the concept of Smart Data to urban accessibility. The paper argues that while crowdsourcing …
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A Mobile Interactive Maps Application for a Visually Impaired Audience
This demo paper presents "Open Touch/Sound Maps," an Android mobile application that makes interactive maps accessible to visually impaired and blind users through multimodal feedback. Web-based spatial information resources like OpenStreetMap are in…
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What Not to Wearable: Using Participatory Workshops to Explore Wearable Device Form Factors for Blind Users
This paper documents two participatory design workshops conducted with a team of eight visually impaired adults to explore features and form factors for a wearable navigation device. The research team met monthly over nine months as a "design team," …
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Browser-Independent Accessible Math
This paper describes the re-architecture of MathPlayer (version 4) from Design Science, transforming it from an Internet Explorer-only plugin into a standalone library that any assistive technology can use to make mathematical notation accessible in …
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Developing a Wearable Tactile Prototype to Support Situational Awareness
This doctoral consortium paper from UMBC describes dissertation research into head-mounted tactile displays for spatial and situational awareness, with applications for people who are blind and those experiencing situational impairments. The research…
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Accessibility barriers to online education for young adults with intellectual disabilities
This paper presents an emic ethnographic account of the accessibility barriers that young adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) encounter when using online education tools in a postsecondary environment. The authors—researchers and educators in …
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Sensory Glasses for the Visually Impaired
This demonstration paper presents the design and development of a low-cost wearable assistive device — sensory glasses — intended to help visually impaired people navigate their surroundings. The device addresses a well-known limitation of the tradit…
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WebSight: Using AR and WebGL shaders to assist the visually impaired
This demonstration paper presents WebSight, a browser-based augmented reality system that uses WebGL shaders to process a smartphone’s live camera feed in real time, enhancing visual features to assist people with low vision in navigating real-world …