Literature Reviews

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

• VisionAid: A Multimodal Assistive Application Supporting Safe Road Navigation for Visually Impaired People in Bangladesh

  Asif Mahbub, Nabil Bin Hannan (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  VisionAid is an Android pedestrian-safety app for blind and low vision (BLV) users in Bangladesh, where road crossing is dangerous because traffic is unstructured: lane discipline is rare, drivers run signals, and crosswalks are inconsistent. The aut…

  • blind and low vision
  • pedestrian navigation
  • mobile accessibility
  • computer vision
  • haptic feedback
  • object detection
  • Global South accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • Android

• TaskAudit: Detecting Functiona11ity Errors in Mobile Apps via Agentic Task Execution

  Mingyuan Zhong, Xia Chen, Davin Win Kyi, Chen Li, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper introduces TaskAudit, an automated accessibility evaluation system for mobile apps that detects what the authors coin 'functiona11ity errors' — accessibility barriers that only manifest through interaction, where a UI's static sta…

  • mobile accessibility
  • accessibility auditing
  • automated accessibility testing
  • generative agents
  • large language models
  • screen readers
  • TalkBack
  • WCAG
  • Android
  • agentic AI

• Towards Testing the Accessibility of Dynamic Visual Changes in Android Mobile GUI with Multi-Modal LLMs

  Mengxi Zhang, Jianlin Yu, Chen Xu, Jiqun Li, Xinglong Yin, Huaxiao Liu (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

  This paper addresses a long-standing gap in mobile accessibility testing: dynamic visual changes in Android GUIs that communicate task status or feedback to sighted users but are invisible to blind users of screen readers such as TalkBack. Examples i…

  • Android
  • mobile accessibility
  • screen readers
  • TalkBack
  • automated testing
  • large language models
  • GPT-4o
  • blind users
  • dynamic content
  • GUI testing
  • prompt engineering

• Naming Practice on an Open Platform for People with Aphasia

  Chris Benjamin, Jesse Harris, Alex Moncrief, Gail Ramsberger, Clayton Lewis (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This paper presents Banga, a prototype software system built on the Android open-source mobile platform to deliver word finding practice — a form of speech-language therapy — to people with aphasia. Aphasia, a language disorder typically caused by st…

  • aphasia
  • naming practice
  • word finding
  • mobile health
  • Android
  • telerehabilitation
  • speech-language therapy
  • open source
  • assistive technology

• The TaskTracker: Assistive Technology for Task Completion

  Victoria E. Hribar (2011) — Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This short paper presents the TaskTracker, an Android smartphone application designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments complete everyday tasks by combining time-management and prompting features into a single tool. The author identifies…

  • assistive technology
  • cognitive impairment
  • task completion
  • time management
  • mobile applications
  • attention deficit
  • Android

• Multi-View Platform: An Accessible Live Classroom Viewing Approach for Low Vision Students

  Raja S. Kushalnagar, Stephanie A. Ludie, Poorna Kushalnagar (2011) — The Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This paper presents a Multi-View Platform (MVP) that uses students' personal smartphones and tablets to provide low vision and deaf students with flexible, magnified views of classroom lecture visuals such as presentation slides and whiteboards. The …

  • low vision
  • education
  • classroom accessibility
  • mobile technology
  • magnification
  • deaf accessibility
  • mainstream technology
  • Android

• What is Wrong with This Word? Dyseggxia: A Game for Children with Dyslexia

  Luz Rello, Clara Bayarri, Azuki Gorriz (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This demonstration paper presents Dyseggxia, a free mobile game application for iOS and Android that provides word exercises designed specifically for Spanish-speaking children with dyslexia. The game's content design is grounded in two empirical fou…

  • dyslexia
  • serious games
  • educational technology
  • Spanish language
  • reading accessibility
  • cognitive accessibility
  • mobile application
  • iOS
  • Android
  • spelling
  • children

• Learning Non-Visual Graphical Information Using a Touch-Based Vibro-Audio Interface

  Nicholas A. Giudice, Hari Prasath Palani, Eric Brenner, Kevin M. Kramer (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper evaluates a vibro-audio interface on a commercial Samsung Galaxy tablet that provides non-visual access to graphical information through synchronized vibration and audio feedback triggered by touch exploration. When users trace their finge…

  • visual impairment
  • blind users
  • tactile graphics
  • haptic feedback
  • vibro-audio interface
  • information graphics
  • bar graphs
  • spatial learning
  • tablet
  • Android
  • multimodal interface

• Smartphone Application for Indoor Scene Localization

  Nabeel Younus Khan, Brendan McCane (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This demonstration paper presents a smartphone-based assistive technology that uses computer vision to determine a blind user's location inside a building where GPS is ineffective. The system operates on a client-server model running on an Android HT…

  • visual impairment
  • blind navigation
  • indoor localization
  • computer vision
  • smartphone
  • image matching
  • SIFT features
  • client-server
  • assistive technology
  • Android

• Reusable Game Interfaces for People with Disabilities

  Javier Torrente (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This doctoral consortium paper proposes that creating specialized, reusable accessibility tools for game developers can significantly reduce the cost and effort of making games accessible to people with disabilities. The author argues that while game…

  • game accessibility
  • serious games
  • audio games
  • eyes-free interaction
  • 3D audio
  • game development tools
  • reusable components
  • Android
  • authoring tools