Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged IDE.

A Voice-Activated Syntax-Directed Editor for Manually Disabled Programmers

Thomas J. Hubbell, David D. Langan, Thomas F. Hain (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

This paper presents VASDE (Voice-Activated Syntax-Directed Editor), a programming environment designed to allow people with manual disabilities to write Java code using voice commands instead of a keyboard and mouse. The authors argue that traditiona…
Improving Programming Interfaces for People with Limited Mobility Using Voice Recognition

Xiomara Figueroa Fontánez, Patricia Ordóñez (2014) — Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS)

This paper describes an effort to make programming more accessible to people with motor impairments by integrating voice recognition into an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The work is motivated by the specific case of a computer scientist …
Vocal Programming for People with Upper-Body Motor Impairments

Lucas Rosenblatt, Patrick Carrington, Kotaro Hara, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

This paper presents VocalIDE, a prototype voice-based integrated development environment (IDE) designed to enable people with upper-body motor impairments to write and edit computer code using speech commands rather than a keyboard. Only 4% of profes…