Literature Reviews

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

• Capability Survey of Japanese User Agents and Its Impact on Web Accessibility

  Takayuki Watanabe, Masahiro Umegaki (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A): Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?

  This paper presents a systematic evaluation of four major Japanese user agents for people with visual disabilities — IBM Home Page Reader 3.04 (a voice browser), PC-Talker XP 3.04, 95 Reader 6.0, and JAWS 6.2 (Japanese edition) — tested against the W…

  • user agents
  • screen readers
  • UAAG
  • assistive technology evaluation
  • Japanese accessibility
  • accessibility standards harmonization
  • PDF accessibility
  • Flash accessibility
  • baseline

• Interdependent Components of Web Accessibility

  Wendy A. Chisholm, Shawn Lawton Henry (2005) — Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  Written by two key members of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), this paper provides the definitive explanation of how web accessibility depends on multiple interdependent components working together — a systems view that was often overlooke…

  • web accessibility
  • WAI
  • WCAG
  • ATAG
  • UAAG
  • accessibility standards
  • authoring tools
  • user agents
  • assistive technology
  • systems thinking