Literature Reviews

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

• Transforming Flash to XML for Accessibility Evaluations

  Shin Saito, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper from IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory proposes a method for transforming Flash content into XML structures to enable automated accessibility evaluation. At the time of publication, Flash was installed on over 95% of personal computers and was…

  • Flash accessibility
  • automated testing
  • accessibility evaluation
  • rich internet applications
  • screen readers
  • XML transformation
  • MSAA

• Accessibility and design: a failure of the imagination

  Bob Regan (2004) — Proceedings of the 2004 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  Written by Bob Regan of Macromedia (makers of Flash), this paper argues that the poor state of web accessibility represents a "failure of the imagination" — a failure by both the design community to engage with accessibility and by accessibility advo…

  • visual design
  • accessible design
  • Flash accessibility
  • CSS
  • web standards
  • design culture
  • accessibility advocacy

• Capability Survey of Japanese User Agents and Its Impact on Web Accessibility

  Takayuki Watanabe, Masahiro Umegaki (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A): Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?

  This paper presents a systematic evaluation of four major Japanese user agents for people with visual disabilities — IBM Home Page Reader 3.04 (a voice browser), PC-Talker XP 3.04, 95 Reader 6.0, and JAWS 6.2 (Japanese edition) — tested against the W…

  • user agents
  • screen readers
  • UAAG
  • assistive technology evaluation
  • Japanese accessibility
  • accessibility standards harmonization
  • PDF accessibility
  • Flash accessibility
  • baseline