Literature Reviews

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

• Sparsha: A Comprehensive Indian Language Toolset for the Blind

  Anirban Lahiri, Satya Jyoti Chattopadhyay, Anupam Basu (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper presents Sparsha ("feeling of touch" in Hindi), the first comprehensive toolset enabling over 13 million visually impaired people in the Indian subcontinent to read and write in their native languages using a computer. Existing Braille tra…

  • braille
  • visual impairment
  • Indian languages
  • multilingual accessibility
  • screen reader
  • text-to-speech
  • tactile graphics
  • internationalization
  • digital inclusion
  • Global South accessibility