Literature Reviews

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

• Amaze3D: Making 3D Worlds Accessible to Blind Gamers

  Greg Gay, Matthew Ralston (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This extended abstract presents Amaze3D (The Accessibility Maze 3D), a proof-of-concept demonstrating that Unity-based 3D game worlds can be made independently navigable by blind players. Built as a WebGL-based 3D adaptation of an earlier 2D JavaScri…

  • game accessibility
  • blind users
  • Unity
  • 3D worlds
  • educational games
  • serious games
  • spatial navigation
  • screen reader

• SoundModVR: Sound Modifications in Virtual Reality to Support People who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

  Xinyun Cao, Dhruv Jain (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This paper challenges the prevailing approach to VR sound accessibility for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people, which has focused almost exclusively on substituting audio with visual or haptic alternatives (captions, flashing indicators, vibration…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • virtual reality
  • sound modification
  • audio accessibility
  • partial hearing
  • Unity
  • developer toolkit