Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged Arabic.

Towards the Development of Haptic-Based Interface for Teaching Visually Impaired Arabic Handwriting

Abeer S. Bayousuf, Hend S. Al-Khalifa, AbdulMalik S. Al-Salman (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

This poster paper introduces an initial haptic-based system for teaching Arabic letter handwriting to students with visual impairments. Handwriting requires coordination of vision and hand movement, making it particularly challenging for visually imp…
A Web Based Multi-Linguists Symbol-to-Text AAC Application

Chaohai Ding, Nawar Halabi, Lama Al-Zaben, Yunjia Li, E. A. Draffan, Mike Wald (2015) — Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This paper presents Symbol Dragoman, a web-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) application that enables users who have no spoken language to communicate in both Arabic and English using pictographic symbols. The core problem addres…
Arabic web accessibility guidelines: Understanding and use by web developers in Kuwait

Muhammad Saleem (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

This extended abstract describes a doctoral research project aimed at developing and implementing Arabic-language web accessibility resources for developers, web content managers, and designers in Kuwait and the broader Middle East. The paper highlig…