Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
74 results found tagged blindness and low vision.
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Making Mobile Augmented Reality Applications Accessible
This paper tackles a fundamental accessibility gap in augmented reality: AR applications are overwhelmingly visual, mixing virtual 3D objects with the real world in ways that existing screen readers and accessibility services cannot interpret. The re…
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IMAGE: A Deployment Framework for Creating Multimodal Experiences of Web Graphics
This short paper from McGill University introduces IMAGE (Internet Multimodal Access to Graphical Exploration), an open-source framework for converting web graphics into accessible multimodal outputs including audio, haptic, and text representations …
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From the Lab to People's Home: Lessons from Accessing Blind Participants' Interactions via Smart Glasses in Remote Studies
This paper from the University of Maryland explores using smart glasses as an observational tool in remote usability studies with blind participants. The COVID-19 pandemic forced accessibility researchers to shift from in-person to remote methods, bu…
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AIDE: Automatic and Accessible Image Descriptions for Review Imagery in Online Retail
This paper from the Wayfair Next team presents AIDE (Automatic Image Description Engine), a multi-modal system that automatically generates alt-text for user-submitted review photos on e-commerce sites. While product images on retail sites sometimes …