Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
99 results found tagged personalization.
-
Responsive Design for Personalised Subtitles
This paper from BBC R&D and the University of Dundee proposes applying responsive web design principles to subtitle display, moving away from the legacy Teletext format that has constrained subtitling since 1979. Traditional subtitles are pre-blocked…
-
Evaluation of DysWebxia: A Reading App Designed for People with Dyslexia
This paper presents the evaluation of DysWebxia, an iOS reading application specifically designed for people with dyslexia. The app integrates evidence-based text presentation features known to improve reading performance for people with dyslexia — i…
-
"Old Habits Die Hard!": Eyetracking Based Experiential Transcoding: A Study with Mobile Users
This paper presents an eyetracking-based approach to experiential transcoding — the practice of reformatting web pages into more accessible forms based on understanding how users actually experience and navigate content. The authors built on their ea…
-
A Study on Customizing Interaction in Adaptable Games
This paper from the Federal University of Pará (Brazil) investigates customization features for adaptable games designed as assistive technology tools for children with disabilities, where healthcare professionals configure the games to match each ch…
-
A Platform to Support Personalized Training of People with Disabilities
This paper from IBM Research Brazil presents a two-component platform for creating and delivering personalized vocational training courses to people with multiple types of disabilities. The system consists of a web-based course-authoring portal for i…
-
Widening access to online health education for lung cancer: a feasibility study
This paper presents a feasibility study of "When2Go," a web-based lung cancer symptom appraisal tool designed to reach populations typically excluded from online health information: older adults with low education levels, low health literacy, and psy…
-
Supporting the selection of web content modality based on user interactions logs
This paper explores using machine learning to automatically detect whether a web user is employing assistive technology based solely on their interaction patterns during a single pageview, without requiring explicit profile configuration or customiza…
-
Life-long learning on the inclusive web
In this keynote-style paper, Jutta Treviranus—director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University—argues that formal education systems are fundamentally failing to enable all students to reach their diverse potential, and that this fa…
-
Improving OER websites for learners with disabilities
This extended abstract presents an OER (Open Educational Resources) website designed to enhance the user experience of learners with disabilities when searching for and retrieving educational resources. The authors argue that despite the inclusive vi…
-
Closed ASL Interpreting for Online Videos
This paper introduces "closed interpreting," a concept analogous to closed captioning but for sign language interpretation of online videos. While many deaf viewers prefer ASL interpreters over captions (as verbatim captioning speed often exceeds rea…