Literature Reviews

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

• Conversational Gestures for Direct Manipulation on the Audio Desktop

  T. V. Raman (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper by T. V. Raman of Adobe Systems' Advanced Technology Group presents a systematic methodology for designing auditory interfaces by decomposing visual interaction into "conversational gestures" — the atomic building blocks of human-computer …

  • auditory interface
  • audio desktop
  • speech-enabling
  • conversational gestures
  • direct manipulation
  • non-visual interaction
  • blind users
  • Emacspeak
  • auditory icons
  • game accessibility