Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• A General Education Course on Universal Access, Disability, Technology and Society

  Sri H. Kurniawan, Sonia Arteaga, Roberto Manduchi (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a General Education course called "Universal Access: Disability, Technology and Society" (CMPE 80A) offered at the University of California Santa Cruz. The course was created to expos…

  • accessibility education
  • universal access
  • disability awareness
  • assistive technology
  • curriculum design
  • undergraduate education

• Towards Accessible Touch Interfaces

  Tiago Guerreiro, Hugo Nicolau, Joaquim Jorge, Daniel Gonçalves (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents an empirical evaluation of touch screen interaction techniques with 15 tetraplegic users, aiming to provide evidence-based guidance for designing accessible mobile touch interfaces. The authors recognized that while touch screen d…

  • touch screen accessibility
  • motor impairment
  • tetraplegia
  • mobile devices
  • interaction techniques
  • target acquisition
  • inclusive design

• Testability and Validity of WCAG 2.0: The Expertise Effect

  Giorgio Brajnik, Yeliz Yesilada, Simon Harper (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper investigates the testability and validity of WCAG 2.0 success criteria through an empirical study with 22 accessibility experts and 27 non-experts (university students with 14 hours of accessibility training). Participants evaluated all 61…

  • WCAG 2.0
  • web accessibility
  • conformance review
  • evaluator effect
  • accessibility audit
  • guidelines
  • expertise
  • evaluation methodology

• Evaluating a Tool for Improving Accessibility to Charts and Graphs

  Leo Ferres, Gitte Lindgaard, Livia Sumegi (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents two formative usability studies of iGraph-Lite, a natural language-based assistive technology that enables blind and visually impaired people to interact with statistical line graphs through keyboard commands and text-to-speech ou…

  • data visualization
  • blindness
  • natural language generation
  • information graphics
  • screen readers
  • text-to-speech
  • usability evaluation
  • graph accessibility

• Note-Taker 2.0: The Next Step Toward Enabling Students who are Legally Blind to Take Notes in Class

  David S. Hayden, Liqing Zhou, Michael J. Astrauskas, John A. Black (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper describes the iterative design and usability testing of the Note-Taker, a portable assistive device that enables students who are legally blind to take notes during classroom lectures. The core problem is that note-taking requires rapidly …

  • low vision
  • legal blindness
  • note-taking
  • STEM accessibility
  • education
  • assistive technology
  • magnification
  • camera
  • tablet PC

• Text Locating in Scene Images for Reading and Navigation Aids for Visually Impaired Persons

  Chucai Yi (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents a computer vision algorithm for locating text in natural scene images — a key capability needed for camera-based reading assistants and navigation aids for people who are blind or visually impaired. While existing reading assistan…

  • computer vision
  • text recognition
  • blindness
  • navigation
  • reading assistant
  • scene text
  • optical character recognition
  • assistive technology

• Utterance-Based Systems: Organization and Design of AAC Interfaces

  Timothy J. Walsh (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper describes the design and development of an utterance-based AAC interface for literate, high-functioning adults who need communication support in public situations such as restaurants or shops. The central design challenge in AAC interfaces…

  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • interface design
  • utterance-based system
  • communication rate
  • assistive technology
  • speech generation

• Color-Audio Encoding Interface for Visual Substitution: See ColOr Matlab-based Demo

  Juan Diego Gomez, Guido Bologna, Thierry Pun (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This demonstration paper presents the See ColOr (Seeing Color with an Orchestra) system, a framework that translates colour information from images into spatialized musical instrument sounds to provide people who are blind with a form of colour perce…

  • sonification
  • visual substitution
  • blindness
  • color perception
  • sensory substitution
  • spatial audio
  • HRTF
  • assistive technology

• Modeling and Synthesizing Spatially Inflected Verbs for American Sign Language Animations

  Matt Huenerfauth, Pengfei Lu (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents a novel computational method for automatically synthesizing animations of American Sign Language (ASL) verbs that undergo spatial inflection — a grammatical process where verb motion paths change based on the 3D locations in space…

  • American Sign Language
  • sign language animation
  • deaf accessibility
  • natural language generation
  • avatar
  • spatial inflection
  • machine learning
  • computer animation

• Interactive SIGHT Demo: Textual Summaries of Simple Bar Charts

  Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry, Kathleen F. McCoy (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This demonstration paper presents Interactive SIGHT, a browser extension designed to make simple bar charts found in online popular media (newspapers, magazines) accessible to people with visual impairments. The system goes beyond providing raw data …

  • information graphics
  • data visualization
  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • natural language generation
  • alternative text
  • bar charts
  • web accessibility
  • browser extension