Literature Reviews

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

• Building Keyboard Accessible Drag and Drop

  Rucha Somani, Jiahang Xin, Bijay Bhaskar Deo, Yun Huang (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This demo paper presents an API that enables web developers to create keyboard-accessible drag and drop (DnD) components for web applications, particularly e-learning systems. Drag and drop interactions are widely used in educational websites for cla…

  • keyboard accessibility
  • drag and drop
  • web accessibility
  • e-learning
  • screen readers
  • web development
  • ARIA

• Expression: A Google Glass Based Assistive Solution for Social Signal Processing

  ASM Iftekhar Anam, Shahinur Alam, Mohammed Yeasin (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This demo paper presents Expression, a Google Glass-based assistive system that enables blind and visually impaired users to perceive non-verbal social signals during face-to-face conversations. Limited access to non-verbal cues — facial expressions,…

  • blindness
  • wearable technology
  • facial expression recognition
  • social interaction
  • Google Glass
  • affective computing
  • computer vision
  • sensory substitution

• Motion History to Improve Communication and Switch Access for People with Severe and Multiple Disabilities

  Guang Yang, Mamoru Iwabuchi, Rumi Hirabayashi, Kenryu Nakamura, Kimihiko Taniguchi, Syoudai Sano, Takamitsu Aoki (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This demo paper presents the application of Motion History — a computer vision technique that visualises a user's movement history as a heat map — to support communication and switch access for people with severe and multiple disabilities. The system…

  • severe disabilities
  • multiple disabilities
  • switch access
  • computer vision
  • Kinect
  • communication
  • AAC
  • intellectual disability
  • children

• Designing a Text Entry Multimodal Keypad for Blind Users of Touchscreen Mobile Phones

  Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Barbara Leporini, Amaury Trujillo (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents MTITK (Multimodal Text Input Touchscreen Keypad), a software-only text entry system for blind users of touchscreen phones that combines the familiar 12-key telephone keypad layout with multimodal audio-tactile feedback. The work i…

  • mobile accessibility
  • text entry
  • blindness
  • multimodal interaction
  • haptic feedback
  • touchscreen accessibility
  • Android

• The Blind Driver Challenge: Steering Using Haptic Cues

  Burkay Sucu, Eelke Folmer (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents a haptic steering interface that enables blind individuals to steer a vehicle on a track using vibrotactile cues, addressing the National Federation of the Blind's 2004 "Blind Driver Challenge." While self-driving vehicles could t…

  • blindness
  • haptic feedback
  • mobility
  • autonomous vehicles
  • driving
  • sensory substitution
  • simulation
  • vibrotactile

• A Large User Pool for Accessibility Research with Representative Users

  Marianne Dee, Vicki L. Hanson (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper reports on the creation and management of the SiDE (Social Inclusion in the Digital Economy) User Pool at the University of Dundee, Scotland — a pool of over 800 older adults and people with disabilities established between 2009 and 2014 t…

  • research methodology
  • user research
  • participant recruitment
  • aging
  • accessibility research
  • participatory design
  • older adults

• Accessible Web Chat Interface

  Valentyn Melnyk (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper addresses the accessibility of web chat widgets — ubiquitous real-time communication tools embedded in web applications for customer support, social interaction, and service delivery. Screen readers like JAWS, VoiceOver, and NVDA do not re…

  • web accessibility
  • screen readers
  • dynamic content
  • ARIA
  • web widgets
  • chat accessibility
  • blindness

• Improving Programming Interfaces for People with Limited Mobility Using Voice Recognition

  Xiomara Figueroa Fontánez, Patricia Ordóñez (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper describes an effort to make programming more accessible to people with motor impairments by integrating voice recognition into an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The work is motivated by the specific case of a computer scientist …

  • programming accessibility
  • voice interface
  • speech recognition
  • motor disability
  • spinal muscular atrophy
  • IDE
  • open source
  • participatory design

• Phoneme-based Predictive Text Entry Interface

  Ha Trinh, Annalu Waller, Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson, Vicki L. Hanson (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents iSCAN-2, an iPad application that enables nonspeaking individuals to enter text by selecting phonemes (speech sounds) rather than spelling words with letters. People with severe speech impairments often face challenges in literacy…

  • AAC
  • text entry
  • phoneme
  • speech impairment
  • word prediction
  • literacy
  • assistive technology
  • pie menu

• Explorations on Breathing Based Text Input for Mobile Devices

  Jackson F. Filho, Thiago Valle, Wilson Prata (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents progress on PuffText, a breathing-based text input system for mobile phones designed for people with motor disabilities who cannot handle a mobile device manually. The system uses the phone's built-in microphone to detect "puffs" …

  • text entry
  • alternative input
  • motor disability
  • sip-and-puff
  • mobile accessibility
  • breathing input
  • assistive technology