Literature Reviews

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

• Making Microsoft Excel Accessible: Multimodal Presentation of Charts

  Iyad Abu Doush, Enrico Pontelli, Dominic Simon, Tran Cao Son, Ou Ma (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper presents a system for making Microsoft Excel charts accessible to people with visual impairments through a combination of haptic force feedback and audio cues. The authors identify that while screen readers and specialised tools can handle…

  • data visualization
  • haptic technology
  • sonification
  • visual impairment
  • charts
  • multimodal interaction
  • Microsoft Excel
  • accessible graphs