Literature Reviews

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

• μCap: Instrumental Music Captions for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

  SooYeon Ahn, In-Chang Baek, KyungJoong Kim, Khai N. Truong, Jin-Hyuk Hong (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Ahn and colleagues introduce μCap (Music Captions), an automatic captioning system that makes instrumental music accessible to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences by producing time-aligned, non-lexical textual renderings — syllable-like strings …

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • DHH
  • captions
  • closed captions
  • music accessibility
  • instrumental music
  • sound visualization
  • retrieval augmented generation
  • RAG
  • large language models
  • generative AI
  • multimodal access
  • onomatopoeia
  • mimetic language
  • media accessibility
  • Korean

• From Struggle to Success: Context-Aware Guidance for Screen Reader Users in Computer Use

  Nan Chen, Jing Lu, Zilong Wang, Luna K. Qiu, Siming Chen, Yuqing Yang (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Chen, Lu, Wang, Qiu, Chen and Yang present AskEase, an NVDA add-on that delivers on-demand, step-by-step, screen-reader-friendly guidance for blind and low-vision computer users tackling unfamiliar desktop software. The work responds to a persistent …

  • accessibility
  • screen readers
  • AI
  • LLM
  • assistive technology
  • help-seeking
  • context engineering
  • human-AI interaction
  • blind and low vision
  • NVDA
  • RAG
  • multimodal AI