Literature Reviews

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

• Accessify: An ML Powered Application to Provide Accessible Images on Web Sites

  Shivam Singh, Anurag Bhandari, Nishith Pathak (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This demonstration paper presents Accessify, a browser plugin that uses machine learning to automatically generate alternative text descriptions for all images on a website, injecting them into the page’s DOM so screen readers can access them. The sy…

  • alternative text
  • image accessibility
  • machine learning
  • browser extension
  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • screen readers
  • web accessibility
  • image captioning
  • TensorFlow

• A TensorFlow-based Assistive Technology System for Users with Visual Impairments

  Davide Mulfari (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This extended abstract presents a wearable computer vision system that uses deep learning to classify objects in a blind user’s surroundings and provide audio descriptions via text-to-speech. The system addresses a limitation of smartphone-based obje…

  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • blind
  • visual impairment
  • wearable technology
  • object recognition
  • Internet of Things
  • Raspberry Pi
  • museum accessibility
  • TensorFlow