Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
249 results found tagged mobile accessibility.
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WearWrite: Crowd-Assisted Writing from Smartwatches
WearWrite is a system that enables users to write documents from their smartwatches by leveraging crowd workers to translate ideas into text. The system addresses the fundamental limitation that smartwatches have severely constrained input/output — t…
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EasySnap: Real-time Audio Feedback for Blind Photography
This demonstration paper presents EasySnap, an iPhone application that enables blind and low-vision users to take high-quality photographs by providing real-time audio feedback as they point their camera phones. The system addresses a key barrier: bl…
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Answering Visual Questions with Conversational Crowd Assistants
This paper introduces Chorus:View, a system that enables blind users to get visual questions answered through continuous conversational interaction with multiple crowd workers viewing a live video stream from the user's mobile device. The system addr…
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WearMail: On-the-Go Access to Information in Your Email with a Privacy-Preserving Human Computation Workflow
WearMail is a conversational system that extracts specific information from a user's email via voice queries on wearable devices (such as smartwatches), using a novel privacy-preserving human computation workflow. The system addresses the challenge t…
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Real Time Object Scanning Using a Mobile Phone and Cloud-based Visual Search Engine
This paper presents Scan Search, an iPhone application that enables blind users to identify everyday objects in real time by continuously scanning with their phone camera rather than taking individual photos. The core challenge addressed is that blin…
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App Usage Predicts Cognitive Ability in Older Adults
This paper investigates how older adults use smartphones differently from younger adults and whether those differences can be explained by cognitive function. The researchers collected three months of iPhone usage data from 84 healthy older adults (a…
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Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels
This paper from Apple introduces Screen Recognition, a system that automatically generates accessibility metadata for mobile apps by analyzing their visual pixels, enabling screen readers to work with apps that lack proper developer-provided accessib…
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People with Visual Impairment Training Personal Object Recognizers: Feasibility and Challenges
This paper explores whether people with visual impairments can train their own personalized object recognition systems using a smartphone camera and a small number of example photos. The authors address a fundamental limitation of existing object rec…
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Towards Automated Accessibility Report Generation for Mobile Apps
This paper presents a system for automatically generating whole-app accessibility reports for mobile apps, addressing key limitations of existing accessibility scanning tools. The work begins with formative interviews with eight accessibility QA prof…
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Screen Parsing: Towards Reverse Engineering of UI Models from Screenshots
This paper introduces screen parsing, the task of predicting UI elements and their hierarchical relationships from a screenshot alone. While prior work could detect individual UI elements on a screen (element detection), those approaches produced fla…