Literature Reviews

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

• Providing access to graphical user interfaces — not graphical screens

  W. Keith Edwards, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Kathryn Stockton (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper argues that screen readers for graphical user interfaces should provide access to application interfaces at the semantic level rather than merely translating graphical screen contents. The authors from Georgia Tech's GVU Center identify th…

  • GUI accessibility
  • screen readers
  • accessibility API
  • blind and low vision
  • auditory interface
  • off-screen model
  • software architecture
  • X Window System