Literature Reviews

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

• Linux Screen Reader: Extensible Assistive Technology

  Peter Parente, Brett Clippingdale (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents the Linux Screen Reader (LSR), an open source project from IBM that aimed to create a reusable, extensible development platform for building alternative and supplemental user interfaces on the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike con…

  • screen reader
  • Linux
  • open source
  • assistive technology
  • accessibility API
  • GNOME
  • extensibility
  • spatial audio
  • scripting

• Capture: A Desktop Display-Centric Text Recorder

  Oren Laadan, Andrew Shu, Jason Nieh (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper presents Capture, a display-centric text recording system that continuously tracks all onscreen text and metadata across both foreground and background windows with low overhead and without requiring modifications to applications, window s…

  • screen reader
  • accessibility API
  • accessibility tree
  • text recording
  • desktop accessibility
  • GNOME
  • Linux
  • AT-SPI
  • caching architecture
  • assistive technology