Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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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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Increasing Web Accessibility by Automatically Judging Alternative Text Quality
This paper presents a machine learning classifier that can automatically judge whether alternative text assigned to web images is appropriate or inappropriate, using contextual features rather than visual analysis of the image itself. The research ad…
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Scribe: Deep Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence to Caption Speech in Real Time
Scribe is a system that provides on-demand, real-time captioning of live speech for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people by combining groups of non-expert human captionists with machine intelligence. The system addresses a critical accessibility gap…
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Zensors: Adaptive, Rapidly Deployable, Human-Intelligent Sensor Feeds
Zensors presents a novel sensing platform that combines real-time human intelligence from online crowd workers with machine learning to create adaptive, rapidly deployable intelligent sensors. The system addresses a fundamental gap in smart environme…
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Investigating the Appropriateness of Social Network Question Asking as a Resource for Blind Users
This paper explores whether social networking sites (SNSs) are a viable alternative to paid crowdsourcing for answering blind users' visual questions. The research combines three methods: a survey of 191 blind adults about their social networking hab…
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VizLens: A Robust and Interactive Screen Reader for Interfaces in the Real World
This paper introduces VizLens, a system that functions as a screen reader for physical interfaces in the real world, enabling blind people to independently use inaccessible appliances like microwaves, thermostats, kiosks, and checkout terminals. VizL…
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The Design of Human-Powered Access Technology
This paper presents a comprehensive framework of 13 design dimensions for evaluating and comparing human-powered access technology — systems that use human assistance, facilitated by technology, to overcome accessibility barriers that automation alon…
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Facade: Auto-generating Tactile Interfaces to Appliances
This paper introduces Facade, a crowdsourced fabrication pipeline that enables blind people to independently make flat-panel appliance interfaces accessible by generating 3D-printed tactile button overlays. The problem addressed is that modern applia…
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A Readability Evaluation of Real-Time Crowd Captions in the Classroom
This paper evaluates the readability of real-time captions produced by three different approaches in a higher education classroom setting: professional CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captionists, automatic speech recognition (ASR), …
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"With most of it being pictures now, I rarely use it": Understanding Twitter's Evolving Accessibility to Blind Users
This multi-method study examines how blind people use Twitter and the accessibility barriers they face as the platform shifts from text-based to increasingly image-heavy content. The researchers combined an online survey of 132 blind Twitter users, l…