Literature Reviews

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

• Screen Reader/2: Access to OS/2 and the Graphical User Interface

  Jim Thatcher (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper describes IBM Screen Reader/2, a screen access system that enabled blind users to interact with the OS/2 graphical user interface (GUI), Windows programs running under OS/2, and text-mode DOS and OS/2 programs. The system evolved from near…

  • screen readers
  • graphical user interface
  • blind users
  • off-screen model
  • text-to-speech
  • GUI accessibility
  • IBM