Literature Reviews

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

• Facilita: reading assistance to the functionally illiterate

  Willian Massami Watanabe (2010) — Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This doctoral consortium paper presents Facilita, a web application that uses natural language processing (NLP) to automatically simplify Portuguese web content for functionally illiterate users. In Brazil, 21.7% of the population aged 15 and over is…

  • literacy
  • cognitive accessibility
  • natural language processing
  • text simplification
  • readability
  • Portuguese
  • multilingual accessibility
  • digital inclusion