Literature Reviews

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

• ChartMaster: A Tool for Interacting with Stock Market Charts using a Screen Reader

  Hong Zou, Jutta Treviranus (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper presents ChartMaster, a tool enabling screen reader users to query interactive stock market charts, developed through an inclusive co-design process with visually impaired participants. The authors frame the problem in economic terms: 1.3 …

  • blindness
  • screen reader
  • data visualization
  • financial literacy
  • inclusive design
  • co-design
  • charts and graphs
  • multimodal interface

• Nonvisual Access to an Interactive Electric Field Simulation: Work in Progress

  Clayton Lewis, Derek Riemer (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This demonstration paper presents work-in-progress on making the PhET Project's Radiating Charge physics simulation accessible to blind users through audio representation. The PhET Project offers over 130 interactive science simulations downloaded mo…

  • blindness
  • sonification
  • STEM education
  • interactive simulation
  • inclusive design
  • auditory display
  • physics education
  • PhET

• How Designing for People With and Without Disabilities Shapes Student Design Thinking

  Kristen Shinohara, Cynthia L. Bennett, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2016) — ASSETS '16: Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This study investigates how requiring student designers to create technologies for both disabled and non-disabled users influences their understanding of accessibility and design thinking. Unlike typical disability-specific design approaches that pro…

  • accessibility education
  • design thinking
  • inclusive design
  • user-centered design
  • ableism
  • design education
  • Universal Design
  • participatory design

• An Accessible Blocks Language: Work in Progress

  Varsha Koushik, Clayton Lewis (2016) — Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

  This demonstration paper presents Pseudospatial Blocks (PB), a nonvisual blocks programming language designed to make block-based coding environments accessible to blind learners. Block languages like Scratch, Snap, MIT App Inventor, and Microsoft Bl…

  • blindness
  • programming education
  • screen reader
  • education
  • STEM accessibility
  • inclusive design
  • software accessibility

• A Tool for Capturing Essential Preferences

  Dana Ayotte, Michelle Brennan, Nancy Frishberg, Cynthia Jimes, Lisa Petrides, Whitney Quesenbery, Madeleine Rothberg, Rich Schwerdtfeger, Jim Tobias, Jutta Treviranus, Shari Trewin, Gregg C. Vanderheiden (2016) — Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

  This demonstration paper presents the First Discovery Tool, a multimodal web-based application designed to help people discover and set essential accessibility preferences — such as large fonts, high contrast, speech output, or one-handed keyboard us…

  • personalization
  • accessibility tools
  • aging
  • education
  • inclusive design
  • digital literacy
  • user interface design
  • universal design

• Remote Access Programs to Better Integrate Individuals with Disabilities

  Thomas Hahn, Hidayat Ur Rahman, Richard Segall, Christoph Heim, Raphaela Brunson, Ankush Sharma, Maryam Aslam, Ana Lara-Rodriguez, Md. Sahidul Islam, Neha Gupta, Charles S. Embry, Patrick Grossmann, Shahrukh Babar, Gregory A. Skibinski, Fusheng Tang (2016) — Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

  This experience report, written primarily from the perspective of the first author who is legally blind due to albinism, describes how remote access programs (such as TeamViewer and AnyDesk) combined with voice communication tools (Skype, Google Hang…

  • visual impairment
  • low vision
  • screen magnification
  • remote access
  • education
  • e-learning
  • inclusive design
  • albinism
  • assistive technology

• Improving Real-Time Captioning Experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students

  Saba Kawas, George Karalis, Tzu Wen, Richard E. Ladner (2016) — Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

  This paper takes a holistic, qualitative approach to understanding deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) university students' experiences with real-time captioning in mainstream classrooms, examining both human-based captioning (CART — Communication Access …

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • real-time captioning
  • CART
  • automatic speech recognition
  • education
  • co-design
  • inclusive design
  • captioning
  • classroom accessibility

• Real-Time Mobile Personalized Simulations of Impaired Colour Vision

  Rhouri MacAlpine, David R. Flatla (2016) — Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

  This paper extends personalized simulations of Impaired Colour Vision (ICV) to work in real time on mobile devices, enabling people with typical colour vision to see the world through the camera as someone with ICV would perceive it. At least 5% of t…

  • color vision deficiency
  • color blindness
  • visual impairment
  • mobile accessibility
  • simulation
  • color contrast
  • inclusive design
  • empathy tools

• Online Learning System to Help People with Developmental Disabilities Reinforce Basic Skills

  Lourdes M. Morales-Villaverde, Karina Caro, Taylor Gotfrid, Sri Kurniawan (2016) — Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

  This paper presents the development and evaluation of an HTML5-based web application for iPad designed to help people with developmental disabilities (DD) of all ages reinforce basic skills such as recognizing numbers, letters, money, shapes, and col…

  • developmental disability
  • intellectual disability
  • educational technology
  • cognitive accessibility
  • iPad
  • web application
  • participatory design
  • inclusive design

• Understanding Fatigue and Stamina Management Opportunities and Challenges in Wheelchair Basketball

  Patrick Carrington, Denzel Ketter, Amy Hurst (2017) — Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This paper investigates the current use and future potential of wearable fitness technologies for stamina and fatigue management in wheelchair basketball — a team sport originally created for paraplegic athletes that now includes people with a range …

  • adaptive sports
  • wearable technology
  • wheelchair
  • fitness tracking
  • physical disability
  • quantified self
  • inclusive design